Improvising Medicine
Improvising Medicine In Improvising Medicine, Julie Livingston tells the story of Botswana's only dedicated cancer ward, located in its capital city of Gaborone. The epidemic is part of an ongoing…
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Improvising Medicine
In Improvising Medicine, Julie Livingston tells the story of Botswana's only dedicated cancer ward, located in its capital city of Gaborone. 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. This affecting ethnography follows patients, their relatives, and ward staff as a cancer epidemic emerged in Botswana.
They also reveal cancer as something that happens between people. 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. Serious illness, care, pain, disfigurement, and even death emerge as deeply social experiences.
Livingston describes the cancer ward in