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Author Hunleth, Jean, 1976- author.

Title Children as caregivers : the global fight against tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia / Jean Hunleth
Published New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource
Series Rutgers series in childhood studies
Rutgers series in childhood studies.
Contents Growing up in George -- Residence and relationships -- Between silence and disclosure -- Following the medicine -- Care by women and children -- Children and global health -- Postscript: childhood tuberculosis
Summary Medical anthropologist Jean Hunleth chronicles the experiences of children living with parents and guardians who are suffering from these infectious diseases and shows how their perspectives matter in the global debates about health care. Children as Caregivers examines how well intentioned practitioners fail to realize how children take on active caregiving roles when their guardians become seriously ill. Using ethnographic methods, and listening to the voices of children as well as adults, Hunleth makes the caregiving work of children visible. Children actively seek to "get closer" to ill guardians by providing good care. Both children and ill adults define good care as children's attentiveness to adults' physical needs, their ability to carry out treatment and medication programs in the home, and above all, the need to maintain physical closeness and proximity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-181) and index
Notes In English
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Subject Tuberculosis -- Patients -- Home care -- Zambia
HIV-positive persons -- Home care -- Zambia
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Home care -- Zambia
Child caregivers -- Zambia
Children.
HIV infections.
Tuberculosis.
Human beings.
Humans
Caregivers
Child
HIV Infections
Tuberculosis
children (people by age group)
Homo sapiens (species)
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Tuberculosis
HIV infections
Children
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Home care
Child caregivers
Tuberculosis -- Patients -- Home care
Zambia
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016032166
ISBN 9780813588063
0813588065
0813588030
9780813588032