Author: Clement Masakure
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526135493
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 297
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Informed by the memories of African nurses, this book highlights the experiences of men and women who provided nursing services in Zimbabwe’s hospitals in the twentieth–century. It argues that in their subordinate positions, and within their various capacities – nursing assistants, nursing orderlies, medics and qualified nurses - African women and men played a pivotal role in the provision of healthcare services to their fellow Africans. They transformed hospital spaces into their own, reshaped and reformulated indigenous as well as western nursing and biomedical practices. Through their work, African nurses contributed to the development of the nation by being at the bedside, healing the sick and nursing the infirm.
Author: Rudo B. Gaidzanwa
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171064455
Category : Labor mobility
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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This research report examines the ways in which medical professionals have responded to the changing environment of work and livelihood in Zimbabwe since the adoption of a structural adjustment program. Of particular interest are those doctors and nurses who took a decision to migrate from Zimbabwe to Botswana and South Africa in search of "greener pastures".
Author: Corrie Decker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110710369X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 353
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An engaging history of how the idea of development has shaped Africa's past and present encounters with the West.
Author: Julie Livingston
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822353423
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
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Focused on Botswana's only dedicated oncology ward, Improvising Medicine renders the experiences of patients, their relatives, and clinical staff during a cancer epidemic.
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004429239
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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Tracing Hospital Boundaries explores how the forces of integration and segregation shaped hospital communities and structures in theory and practice between the eleventh and twentieth centuries. The eleven chapters consider hospitals in Europe (particularly Southeast), North America and Africa.
Author: Serbin, Sylvia
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
ISBN: 9231001302
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Author: Michael K. Corman
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442629878
Category : Allied health personnel
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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In Paramedics On and Off the Streets, Michael K. Corman embarks on an institutional ethnography of the complex, mundane, intricate, and exhilarating work of paramedics in Calgary, Alberta. Corman's comprehensive research includes more than 200 hours of participant observation ride-alongs with paramedics over a period of eleven months, more than one hundred first hand interviews with paramedics, and thirty-six interviews with other emergency medical personnel including administrators, call-takers and dispatchers, nurses, and doctors. At the heart of this ethnography are questions about the role of paramedics in urban environments, the role of information and communication technologies in contemporary health care governance, and the organization and accountability of pre-hospital medical services. Paramedics On and Off the Streets is the first institutional ethnography to explore the role and increasing importance of paramedics in our healthcare system. It takes readers on a journey into the everyday lives of EMS personnel and provides an in-depth sociological analysis of the work of pre-hospital health care professionals in the twenty-first century.
Author: Tizian Zumthurm
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004436979
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 319
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Tizian Zumthurm uses the extraordinary hospital of an extraordinary man to produce novel insights into the ordinary practice of biomedicine in colonial Central Africa. His investigation of therapeutic routines in surgery, maternity care, psychiatry, and the treatment of dysentery and leprosy reveals the incoherent nature of biomedicine and not just in Africa. Reading rich archival sources against and along the grain, the author combines concepts that appeal to those interested in the history of medicine and colonialism. Through the microcosm of the hospital, Zumthurm brings to light the social worlds of Gabonese patients as well as European staff. By refusing to easily categorize colonial medical encounters, the book challenges our understanding of biomedicine as solely domineering or interactive.
Author: Young-sun Hong
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107095573
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 445
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This book examines global humanitarian efforts involving the two German states and Third World liberation movements during the Cold War.
Author: Mario J. Azevedo
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319325647
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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This book focuses on Africa’s challenges, achievements, and failures over the past several centuries using an interdisciplinary approach that combines theory and fact and evidence-based practices and interventions in public health, and argues that most of the health problems in Africa are not a result of scarce or lack of resources, but of the misconceived and misplaced priorities that have left the continent behind every other on the globe in terms of health, education, and equitable distribution of opportunities and access to (quality) health as agreed by the United Nations member states at Alma-Ata in 1978.
