Heart for the Work Journeys Through an African Medical School

Name: Heart for the Work Journeys Through an African Medical School
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ISBN: 9780226893273

ISBN-10: 0226893278

ISBN-13: 9780226893273

Edition: 2010

Authors: Claire L. Wendland

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Burnout is common among doctors in the West, so one might assume that a medical career in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, would place far greater strain on the idealism that drives many doctors. But, asA Heart for the Workmakes clear, Malawian medical students learn to confront poverty creatively, experiencing fatigue and frustration but also joy and commitment on their way to becoming physicians. The first ethnography of medical training in the global South, Claire L. Wendland's book is a moving and perceptive look at medicine in a world where the transnational movement of people and ideas creates both devastation and possibility. Wendland, a physician anthropologist,…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Prologue: Arrival Stories



Introduction: Moral Order and Medical Science


All Part of the Same Big Mess: Mkume Lifa



Medicine and Healing in a Postcolonial State


Serving Our Nation: Joe Phoya


In the District: Evelyn Kazembe



Paths to Medicine


Welcome to the College of Medicine



Seeing Deeply and Seeing Through in the Basic Science Years


Welcome to Queens



The Word Made Flesh: Hospital Experience and the Clinical Crisis


Complications: Johnson Chisale


On the Ward: Enelesi Nyirenda



Resource is a Verb: Realities and Responses


Someone Else in This World: Duncan Kasinja


As Human as Everybody Else: Zaithwa Mthindi



Doctors for the People: Theory and Practice


Epilogue: Departure


Technical Appendix: Research Methods


Notes


Glossary


References


Index