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