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Author Livingston, Julie.

Title Debility and the moral imagination in Botswana / Julie Livingston
Published Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description xii, 310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Series African systems of thought
African systems of thought.
Contents Introduction : themes and orientation -- Family matters and money matters -- Public health and developing persons -- Male migration and the pluralization of medicine -- Increasing autonomy, entangled therapeutics, and hidden wombs -- Postcolonial development and constrained care
Summary Julie Livingston documents how transformations wrought by colonialism, independence, industrialisation and development in Botswana have affected changes in bodily life and perceptions of health, illness, debility and accident. She offers an understandingof the dynamic between social change and suffering
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Asthenia -- Botswana.
Human body -- Social aspects -- Botswana.
Public health -- Botswana.
Social change -- Health aspects -- Botswana.
SUBJECT Botswana -- Economic conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85016036 -- 20th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476 -- Health aspects. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005598
Botswana -- Economic conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85016036 -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476
Botswana http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79079238 -- Moral conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006096 -- Health aspects. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005598
Botswana http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79079238 -- Moral conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006096
Botswana http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79079238 -- Social conditions -- 20th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008860 -- Health aspects. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005598
Botswana http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79079238 -- Social conditions -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008860
LC no. 2005005936
ISBN 0253217857 (paperback: alk. paper)
0253346371 (cloth : alk. paper)