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Making uncertainty : tuberculosis, substance use, and pathways to health in South Africa / Anna Versfeld.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Medical anthropology (New Brunswick, N.J.)Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2023]Description: 1 online resource (x, 151 pages) : color illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781978822511
  • 1978822510
  • 9781978822498
  • 1978822499
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making UncertaintyDDC classification:
  • 362.19699/5009687355 23/eng/20220715
LOC classification:
  • RA644.T7 V47 2023
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- 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
Summary: "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 behaviour 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- 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

"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 behaviour 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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