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Improvising medicine : an African oncology ward in an emerging cancer epidemic
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- Creator
- Julie Livingston
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Durham : Duke University Press, 2012
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 228 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780822395768, 0822395762, 9780822353423, 0822353423, 9780822353270, 082235327X
- OCLC
- ocn809910888, ocn769871255
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-219) and index.
- 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 Princess Marina Hospital -- The moral intimacies of care -- Pain and laughter -- After ARVs, during cancer, before death -- Epilogue: changing wards, further improvisations
Subjects
- Princess Marina Hospital.
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- Cancer -- Botswana.
- Cancer -- Treatment -- Botswana.
- Oncology -- Botswana.
- Oncology Service, Hospital.
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- Neoplasms -- therapy
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- Medical Oncology
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- Botswana
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