Focused on Botswana's only dedicated oncology ward, Improvising Medicine renders the experiences of patients, their relatives, and clinical staff during a cancer epidemic.
Focused on Botswana's only dedicated oncology ward, Improvising Medicine renders the experiences of patients, their relatives, and clinical staff during a cancer epidemic.
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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Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii 1. The Other Cancer Ward 1 2. Neoplastic Africa: Mapping Circuits of Toxicity and Knowledge 29 3. Creating and Embedding Cancer in Botswana's Oncology Ward 52 Interlude. Amputation Day at Princess Marina Hospital 85 4. The Moral Intimacies of Care 93 5. Pain and Laughter 119 6. After ARVs, During Cancer, Before Death 152 Epilogue. Changing Wards, Further Improvisations 174 Notes 183 Bibliography 205 Index 221
Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii 1. The Other Cancer Ward 1 2. Neoplastic Africa: Mapping Circuits of Toxicity and Knowledge 29 3. Creating and Embedding Cancer in Botswana's Oncology Ward 52 Interlude. Amputation Day at Princess Marina Hospital 85 4. The Moral Intimacies of Care 93 5. Pain and Laughter 119 6. After ARVs, During Cancer, Before Death 152 Epilogue. Changing Wards, Further Improvisations 174 Notes 183 Bibliography 205 Index 221
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