Improvising medicine : an African oncology ward in an emerging cancer epidemic / Julie Livingston.

African oncology ward in an emerging cancer epidemic

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012.

xvi, 228 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-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 PMH -- The moral intimacies of care -- Pain and laughter -- After ARVs, during cancer, before death -- Epilogue: changing wards, further improvisations.