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Title
Coping with cancer and adversity: Hospital ethnography in Kenya |
Full text
http://dare.uva.nl/record/328472 |
Date
2010 |
Author(s)
Mulemi, B.A. |
Contributor(s)
Geest, J.D.M. van der |
Abstract
Many people associate hospital treatment with 'getting better', the restoration to health and normal life. The onset of a lifethreatening disease such as cancer, however, can transform the hospital into a place of constant struggle and suffering. Hospitalisation in this sense coincides with the deterioration of patients' and their families' overall wellbeing. Drawing on twelve months of ethnographic research in a cancer ward in Kenya, this monograph shows that patients' suffering should be viewed within the context of a wider spectrum of adversity. The book demonstrates the ambiguity of a hospital stay and treatment, showing how a hospital can both alleviate as well as increase human suffering. The author advocates patient-centred hospital ethnography as a way to improve the understanding of cancer patients' needs, both medical and nonmedical, as they struggle to restore their wellbeing. |
Language
en |
Publisher
African Studies Centre |
Type of publication
Doctoral thesis |
Format
image/jpeg; application/pdf |
Rights
It is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the copyright holder (usually the author), other then for strictly personal, individual use. |
Repository
Amsterdam - UvaDis, University of Amsterdam
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