Focused on Botswana's only dedicated oncology ward, Improvising Medicine renders the experiences of patients, their relatives, and clinical staff during a cancer epidemic.
In the rush to development in Botswana, and Africa more generally, changes in work, diet, and medical care have resulted in escalating experiences of chronic illness, debilitating disease, and accident. Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana documents how transformations wrought by colonialism, independence, industrialization, and development have effected changes in bodily life and perceptions of health, illness, and debility. In this intimate and powerful book, Julie Livingston explores the lives of debilitated persons, their caregivers, the medical and social networks of caring, and methods that communities have adopted for promoting well-being. Livingston traces how Tswana medical thought and practice have become intertwined with Western bio-medical ideas and techniques. By focusing on experiences and meanings of illness and bodily misfortune, Livingston sheds light on the complexities of the current HIV/AIDS epidemic and places it in context with a long and complex history of impairment and debility. This book presents practical and thoughtful responses to physical misfortune and offers an understanding of the complex dynamic between social change and suffering.
In February 2003, an undocumented immigrant teen from Mexico lay dying in a prominent American hospital due to a stunning medical oversight--she had received a heart-lung transplantation of the wrong blood type. In the following weeks, Jesica Santillan's tragedy became a portal into the complexities of American medicine, prompting contentious debate about new patterns and old problems in immigration, the hidden epidemic of medical error, the lines separating transplant "haves" from "have-nots," the right to sue, and the challenges posed by "foreigners" crossing borders for medical care. This volume draws together experts in history, sociology, medical ethics, communication and immigration studies, transplant surgery, anthropology, and health law to understand the dramatic events, the major players, and the core issues at stake. Contributors view the Santillan story as a morality tale: about the conflicting values underpinning American health care; about the politics of transplant medicine; about how a nation debates deservedness, justice, and second chances; and about the global dilemmas of medical tourism and citizenship. Contributors: Charles Bosk, University of Pennsylvania Leo R. Chavez, University of California, Irvine Richard Cook, University of Chicago Thomas Diflo, New York University Medical Center Jason Eberl, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Jed Adam Gross, Yale University Jacklyn Habib, American Association of Retired Persons Tyler R. Harrison, Purdue University Beatrix Hoffman, Northern Illinois University Nancy M. P. King, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Barron Lerner, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Susan E. Lederer, Yale University Julie Livingston, Rutgers University Eric M. Meslin, Indiana University School of Medicine and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Susan E. Morgan, Purdue University Nancy Scheper-Hughes, University of California, Berkeley Rosamond Rhodes, Mount Sinai School of Medicine and The Graduate Center, City University of New York Carolyn Rouse, Princeton University Karen Salmon, New England School of Law Lesley Sharp, Barnard and Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Lisa Volk Chewning, Rutgers University Keith Wailoo, Rutgers University
This is the enthralling and acclaimed story of an extraordinary and courageous woman. Her bravery, stoicism and African upbringing were critical to the career of her husband, world-renowned explorer and missionary, David Livingstone. Evocative and beautifully written.
Drawing on interviews with formerly incarcerated men and women, Cars and Jails examines how the costs of car ownership and use are entangled with the prison system. American consumer lore has long held the automobile to be a "freedom machine," consecrating the mobility of a free people. Yet, paradoxically, the car also functions at the cross-roads of two great systems of unfreedom and immobility-- the American debt economy and the carceral state. Cars and Jails investigates this paradox in detail, showing how auto debt, traffic fines and fees, over-policing, and automated surveillance systems work in tandem to entrap and criminalize poor people. Malcolm X, a former auto worker, once observed that "racism is like a Cadillac, they bring out a new model every year." But he could hardly have foreseen how cars themselves would become such an efficient vehicle for delivering Black and brown people into the arms of the carceral system. This book describes how racialization and poverty take their toll on populations with no alternative, in an autocentric country, but to take out loans in order to drive, while exposing themselves to predatory policing. Looking ahead to the frothy promises of the "mobility revolution," Cars and Jails concludes with a number of prescriptions for the overhaul of transportation. In recent years, there have been several books published on the growth of mass incarceration and racialized policing. So, too, the literature on financialization and debt has been growing. None of these books places the car at the center of these developments in order to connect the debt and carceral systems as they work together in daily life.
This is the enthralling and acclaimed story of an extraordinary and courageous woman. Her bravery, stoicism and African upbringing were critical to the career of her husband, world-renowned explorer and missionary, David Livingstone. Evocative and beautifully written.
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