Title: Improvising medicine :
Authors: Livingston, Julie.
Date: 2012
Publisher: Duke University Press,
Physical description: xvi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language: English
LC classification: R
Abstract: "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"--Publisher's description.
Contents: The other cancer ward -- Neoplastic Africa : mapping circuits of toxicity and knowledge -- Creating and embedding cancer in Botswana's oncology ward -- Interlude. amputation day at PMH -- The moral intimacies of care -- Pain and laughter -- After ARVs, during cancer, before death -- Epilogue: changing wards, further improvisations.
Subject headings (LCSH): Cancer--Botswana.; Cancer--Treatment--Botswana.; Oncology--Botswana.; Princess Marina Hospital