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Title
Coping with cancer and adversity: Hospital ethnography in Kenya |
Full text
http://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.341279 |
Date
2010 |
Author(s)
B.A. Mulemi |
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, Leiden |
Type of publication
PhD thesis |
Rights
It is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content licence (like Creative Commons). |
Repository
Amsterdam - UvaPub, University of Amsterdam
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