A Heart for the Work

Author: Claire L. Wendland
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B0044KMM4O
Category: Medical

A Heart for the Work: Journeys through an African Medical School

Burnout is common among doctors in the West, so one might assume that a medical career in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, would place far greater strain on the idealism that drives many doctors. Download A Heart for the Work medical books for free.
But, as A Heart for the Work makes clear, Malawian medical students learn to confront poverty creatively, experiencing fatigue and frustration but also joy and commitment on their way to becoming physicians. The first ethnography of medical training in the global South, Claire L. Wendland's book is a moving and perceptive look at medicine in a world where the transnational movement of people and ideas creates both devastation and possibility.

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