Improvising Medicine

Author: Julie Livingston
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 082235327X
Category: Medical

Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic

In Improvising Medicine, Julie Livingston tells the story of Botswana's only dedicated cancer ward, located in its capital city of Gaborone. Download Improvising Medicine medical books for free.
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 stakes and intellectual and institutional challenges of an epidemic that will shape the future of global health. They convey the contingencies of high-tech medicine in a hospital where vital machines are often broken, drugs go in and out of stock, and bed-space is always at a premium. They also reveal cancer as something that happens between peop Get Improvising Medicine our bestseller medical books.

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