Improvised medicine
Subtitle: inside an African oncology ward
By: Julie Livingston
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780822353270; 9780822353423
Subjects: Oncology; Treatment; Cancer
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The other cancer ward; title: Neoplastic Africa: mapping circuits of toxicity and knowledge; title: Creating and embedding cancer in Botswana's oncology ward; title: Interlude. amputation day at PMH; title: The moral intimacies of care; title: Pain and laughter; title: After ARVs, during cancer, before death; title: Epilogue: changing wards, further improvisations.