Title Debility and the moral imagination in Botswana / Julie Livingston

Published Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 310 pages) : illustrations, maps 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Social change -- Health aspects -- Botswana Human body -- Social aspects -- Botswana Public health -- Botswana Asthenia -- Botswana HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues. MEDICAL -- Public Health. MEDICAL -- Health Policy. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General. MEDICAL -- Diseases. MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery. Asthenia Human body -- Social aspects Public health Öffentliches Gesundheitswesen Körpererfahrung Debilität SUBJECT Botswana -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Health aspects Botswana -- Economic conditions -- 20th century -- Health aspects Botswana -- Moral conditions -- Health aspects Subject Botswana Botswana Form Electronic book ISBN 0253111498 9780253111494 128207251X 9781282072510

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