The Work of Hospitals, a volume on hospitals as clinical and social institutions, foregrounds the tensions inherent in efforts to sustain functional health services in resource-poor states. Global ethnographic research shows how clinicians and patients struggle, without adequate supplies and personnel, in times of financial austerity. The chapters document a vast gulf worldwide between the idealized mission of the hospital and the implementation of this mission in everyday practice.
The Work of Hospitals, a volume on hospitals as clinical and social institutions, foregrounds the tensions inherent in efforts to sustain functional health services in resource-poor states. Global ethnographic research shows how clinicians and patients struggle, without adequate supplies and personnel, in times of financial austerity. The chapters document a vast gulf worldwide between the idealized mission of the hospital and the implementation of this mission in everyday practice.
William C. Olsen is a lecturer in African anthropology in the African studies program at Georgetown University and a research librarian in the Georgetown University Library. He is the co-editor (with Walter van Beek) of Evil in Africa, and the co-editor (with Tom Csordas) for Engaging Evil: A Moral Anthropology. Carolyn Sargent is professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. She is co-editor (with Caroline Brettell) of Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective, and co-editor (with Carole Browner) of Reproduction, Globalization, and the State.
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Introduction William C. Olsen and Carolyn Sargent Part I Global Medicines in Local Cultures 1 Global Health Goals and Local Constraints in a Rural Peruvian Clinic Morgan K. Hoke, Samya R. Stumo, and Thomas L. Leatherman 2 Science and Sanctity: Biomedicine and Christianity at an Ethiopian Hospital Anita Hannig 3 The Cosmopolitan Hospital Cheryl Mattingly 4 “Dangerous Disease”: Epilepsy in Asante William C. Olsen 5 The Salience of the State in Biomedicine: Congo and Uganda Cases Compared John M. Janzen Part II Care Giving and Hospital Labor 6 Creating a Therapeutic Community: Lessons from Allada Hospital Benin Mark Nichter, Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh, and Roch Christian Johnson 7 Medical “Errands” among Women with Cervical Cancer in Guatemala Anita Chary and Peter Rohloff 8 Routinized Caring or a “Call” to Nursing: Shifts in Hospital Nursing in Rukwa, Tanzania Adrienne E. Strong 9 “We Work with What We Have, Not with What We Would Like to Have”: Hospital Care in Mexico Vania Smith-Oka and Kayla J. Hurd Part III Hospitals and the Patient 10 The Navigation of Public Hospitals by West African Immigrants with Cancer in Paris, France Carolyn Sargent 11 Each Child Is Unique: The Responsible U.S. Parent’s Take on Hospital Care Gone Wrong Elisa J. Sobo 12 Making Ethnographic Sense of Cesarean Rates in Greek Public Hospitals Eugenia Georges 13 The Nightside of Medicine: Obstetric Suffering and Ethnographic Witnessing in a Pakistani Hospital Emma Varley Afterword Claire Wendland References Notes on Contributors Index
Introduction William C. Olsen and Carolyn Sargent Part I Global Medicines in Local Cultures 1 Global Health Goals and Local Constraints in a Rural Peruvian Clinic Morgan K. Hoke, Samya R. Stumo, and Thomas L. Leatherman 2 Science and Sanctity: Biomedicine and Christianity at an Ethiopian Hospital Anita Hannig 3 The Cosmopolitan Hospital Cheryl Mattingly 4 “Dangerous Disease”: Epilepsy in Asante William C. Olsen 5 The Salience of the State in Biomedicine: Congo and Uganda Cases Compared John M. Janzen Part II Care Giving and Hospital Labor 6 Creating a Therapeutic Community: Lessons from Allada Hospital Benin Mark Nichter, Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh, and Roch Christian Johnson 7 Medical “Errands” among Women with Cervical Cancer in Guatemala Anita Chary and Peter Rohloff 8 Routinized Caring or a “Call” to Nursing: Shifts in Hospital Nursing in Rukwa, Tanzania Adrienne E. Strong 9 “We Work with What We Have, Not with What We Would Like to Have”: Hospital Care in Mexico Vania Smith-Oka and Kayla J. Hurd Part III Hospitals and the Patient 10 The Navigation of Public Hospitals by West African Immigrants with Cancer in Paris, France Carolyn Sargent 11 Each Child Is Unique: The Responsible U.S. Parent’s Take on Hospital Care Gone Wrong Elisa J. Sobo 12 Making Ethnographic Sense of Cesarean Rates in Greek Public Hospitals Eugenia Georges 13 The Nightside of Medicine: Obstetric Suffering and Ethnographic Witnessing in a Pakistani Hospital Emma Varley Afterword Claire Wendland References Notes on Contributors Index
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