Making Uncertainty - Anna Versfeld

Making Uncertainty

Tuberculosis, Substance Use, and Pathways to Health in South Africa

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
190 Seiten
2023
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-2247-4 (ISBN)
29,90 inkl. MwSt
Making Uncertainty: Tuberculosis, Substance Use, and Pathways to Health explores what happens when tuberculosis and substance use intersect in healthcare facilities in Cape Town, South Africa. Through a close look at life and care, this fine-grained hospital ethnography provides new perspectives on how sickness and health are made.
In Cape Town, South Africa, many people with tuberculosis also use substances. This sets up a seemingly impossible problem: People who use substances are at increased risk of tuberculosis disease; and substance use seems to result in erratic behavior that makes successful treatment of people affected by tuberculosis extremely difficult. People affected don’t get healthy, healthcare providers are frustrated, and families seek to balance love and care for those who are ill with self-protection. How are we to understand this? Where does the responsibility for poor health and healing lie? What are the possibilities for an effective healthcare response? Through a close look at lives and care, Making Uncertainty: Tuberculosis, Substance Use, and Pathways to Health shows how patterns of substance use, tuberculosis disease, and their interaction are shaped by history, social context, and political economy. This, in turn, generates new perspectives on what makes poor health, and what good care might look like.

ANNA VERSFELD is an independent South African medical anthropologist. She consults globally on social dynamics of tuberculosis, vulnerable populations, and people-centered healthcare provision. 

Series Foreword by Lenore Manderson
1 Returners 
2 The Stickiness of Moral Opinion 
3 Co-constitutions: Makers and Maskers 
4 Salience and Silence: Data, Evidence, and the Making of Figure Facts 
5 The Challenge of “Unruly” Patients 
6 Care to Cure 
7 Catching Breath: The Hospital as Restricted Respite 
8 Anthropology in Action 
Acknowledgments
Notes 
References 
Index 

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Medical Anthropology
Zusatzinfo 1 b&w illustration
Verlagsort New Brunswick NJ
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 227 g
Themenwelt Studium Querschnittsbereiche Infektiologie / Immunologie
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-9788-2247-2 / 1978822472
ISBN-13 978-1-9788-2247-4 / 9781978822474
Zustand Neuware
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt?
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich

von Oliver Schmetzer

Buch | Softcover (2023)
Urban & Fischer in Elsevier (Verlag)
27,00
Antibiotika, Virostatika, Antimykotika, Antiparasitäre Wirkstoffe

von Hans-Reinhard Brodt; Achim Hörauf; Michael Kresken …

Buch (2024)
Thieme (Verlag)
165,00