Anna Versfeld

Making Uncertainty

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

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 397g
• ISBN-13: 9781978822481
• ISBN-10: 1978822480
• Artikelnr.: 63872225

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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