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Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic by Julie Livingston

Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic

Julie Livingston

248 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction emotional informative slow-paced
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In Improvising Medicine, Julie Livingston tells the story of Botswana's only dedicated cancer ward, located in its capital city of Gaborone. This affecting ethnography follows patients, their relatives, and ward staff as a cancer epidemic emerged ...

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