Making Uncertainty
Tuberculosis, Substance Use, and Pathways to Health in South Africa
Seiten
2023
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-2247-4 (ISBN)
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-2247-4 (ISBN)
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.
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 behavior 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.
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 behavior 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.
ANNA VERSFELD is an independent South African medical anthropologist. She consults globally on social dynamics of tuberculosis, vulnerable populations, and people-centered healthcare provision.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.01.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Medical Anthropology |
| Zusatzinfo | 1 b&w illustration |
| Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 227 g |
| Themenwelt | Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-9788-2247-2 / 1978822472 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-9788-2247-4 / 9781978822474 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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