Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9780822353423ISBN-10:822353423UPC:9780822353423Book Category:Medical, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Health Care Delivery, Africa, AnthropologyBook Topic:South, Cultural & SocialSize:9.20 x 6.10 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCZGPMBVEK
In Improvising Medicine, Julie Livingston tells the story of Botswana's only dedicated cancer ward, located in its capital city of Gaborone. This affecting ethnography follows patients, their relatives, and ward staff as a cancer epidemic emerged in Botswana. The epidemic is part of an ongoing surge in cancers across the global south; the stories of Botswana's oncology ward dramatize the human...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9780822353423ISBN-10:822353423UPC:9780822353423Book Category:Medical, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Health Care Delivery, Africa, AnthropologyBook Topic:South, Cultural & SocialSize:9.20 x 6.10 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCZGPMBVEK
Julie Livingston is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is the author of Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana and a coeditor of Three Shots at Prevention: The HPV Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine's Simple Solutions and A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship.
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