Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana write by Julie Livingston. This book was released on 2005-10-20. Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana. African Systems of Thought
Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana. African Systems of Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana. African Systems of Thought write by . This book was released on 2005. Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana. African Systems of Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Improvising Medicine
Improvising Medicine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Improvising Medicine write by Julie Livingston. This book was released on 2012-08-29. Improvising Medicine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focused on Botswana's only dedicated oncology ward, Improvising Medicine renders the experiences of patients, their relatives, and clinical staff during a cancer epidemic.
Diamonds, Dispossession & Democracy in Botswana
Diamonds, Dispossession & Democracy in Botswana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diamonds, Dispossession & Democracy in Botswana write by Kenneth Good. This book was released on 2008. Diamonds, Dispossession & Democracy in Botswana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kenneth Good was professor of politics at the University of Botswana when he was expelled from the country. Here, he argues that Botswana's diamonds should be used to diversify the economy and reduce poverty. He also examines the dispossesion of the Bushmen, and the government's grip on power.
Three Shots at Prevention
Three Shots at Prevention - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Three Shots at Prevention write by Keith Wailoo. This book was released on 2010-10-01. Three Shots at Prevention available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 2007, Texas governor Rick Perry issued an executive order requiring that all females entering sixth grade be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV), igniting national debate that echoed arguments heard across the globe over public policy, sexual health, and the politics of vaccination. Three Shots at Prevention explores the contentious disputes surrounding the controversial vaccine intended to protect against HPV, the most common sexually transmitted infection. When the HPV vaccine first came to the market in 2006, religious conservatives decried the government's approval of the vaccine as implicitly sanctioning teen sex and encouraging promiscuity while advocates applauded its potential to prevent 4,000 cervical cancer deaths in the United States each year. Families worried that laws requiring vaccination reached too far into their private lives. Public health officials wrestled with concerns over whether the drug was too new to be required and whether opposition to it could endanger support for other, widely accepted vaccinations. Many people questioned the aggressive marketing campaigns of the vaccine's creator, Merck & Co. And, since HPV causes cancers of the cervix, vulva, vagina, penis, and anus, why was the vaccine recommended only for females? What did this reveal about gender and sexual politics in the United States? With hundreds of thousands of HPV-related cancer deaths worldwide, how did similar national debates in Europe and the developing world shape the global possibilities of cancer prevention? This volume provides insight into the deep moral, ethical, and scientific questions that must be addressed when sexual and social politics confront public health initiatives in the United States and around the world.
