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Book Synopsis Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana. African Systems of Thought by :
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Author : Julie Livingston
Release : 2005-10-20
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana by : Julie Livingston
Download or read book Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana written by Julie Livingston. This book was released on 2005-10-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the rush to development in Botswana, and Africa more generally, changes in work, diet, and medical care have resulted in escalating experiences of chronic illness, debilitating disease, and accident. Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana documents how transformations wrought by colonialism, independence, industrialization, and development have effected changes in bodily life and perceptions of health, illness, and debility. In this intimate and powerful book, Julie Livingston explores the lives of debilitated persons, their caregivers, the medical and social networks of caring, and methods that communities have adopted for promoting well-being. Livingston traces how Tswana medical thought and practice have become intertwined with Western bio-medical ideas and techniques. By focusing on experiences and meanings of illness and bodily misfortune, Livingston sheds light on the complexities of the current HIV/AIDS epidemic and places it in context with a long and complex history of impairment and debility. This book presents practical and thoughtful responses to physical misfortune and offers an understanding of the complex dynamic between social change and suffering.
Author : Thomas O. Beidelman
Release : 1986
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Moral Imagination in Kaguru Modes of Thought by : Thomas O. Beidelman
Download or read book Moral Imagination in Kaguru Modes of Thought written by Thomas O. Beidelman. This book was released on 1986. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christine Jeske
Release : 2020-12-15
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis The Laziness Myth by : Christine Jeske
Download or read book The Laziness Myth written by Christine Jeske. This book was released on 2020-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When people cannot find good work, can they still find good lives? By investigating this question in the context of South Africa, where only 43 percent of adults are employed, Christine Jeske invites readers to examine their own assumptions about how work and the good life do or do not coincide. The Laziness Myth challenges the widespread premise that hard work determines success by tracing the titular "laziness myth," a persistent narrative that disguises the systems and structures that produce inequalities while blaming unemployment and other social ills on the so-called laziness of particular class, racial, and ethnic groups. Jeske offers evidence of the laziness myth's harsh consequences, as well as insights into how to challenge it with other South African narratives of a good life. In contexts as diverse as rapping in a library, manufacturing leather shoes, weed-whacking neighbors' yards, negotiating marriage plans, and sharing water taps, the people described in this book will stimulate discussion on creative possibilities for seeking the good life in and out of employment, in South Africa and elsewhere.
Author : William C. Olsen
Release : 2017-02-27
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis African Medical Pluralism by : William C. Olsen
Download or read book African Medical Pluralism written by William C. Olsen. This book was released on 2017-02-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In most places on the African continent, multiple health care options exist and patients draw on a therapeutic continuum that ranges from traditional medicine and religious healing to the latest in biomedical technology. The ethnographically based essays in this volume highlight African ways of perceiving sickness, making sense of and treating suffering, and thinking about health care to reveal the range and practice of everyday medicine in Africa through historical, political, and economic contexts.
