Africanizing oncology : creativity, crisis, and cancer in Uganda

Africanizing oncology : creativity, crisis, and cancer in Uganda / Marissa Mika.

"Combining methods from African studies, science and technology studies, and medical anthropology, Marissa Mika considers the Uganda Cancer Institute as a microcosm of the Ugandan state and as a lens through which to trace the political, technological, moral, and intellectual aspirations and ac...

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Main Author: Mika, Marissa, 1981- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2021]
Series:New African histories series.
Subjects:
Uganda Cancer Institute.
Cancer > Hospitals > Uganda.
Oncology > Uganda.
Medical policy > Uganda.
Cancer > Hospitals
Medical policy
Oncology
Uganda
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface: A Week in the Life of the Uganda Cancer Institute
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • The African Lymphoma
  • A Hospital Built from Scratch
  • Africanizing Oncology in Idi Amin's Uganda
  • Rocket Launchers and Toxic Drugs
  • When Radiotherapy Travels
  • Research Is Our Resource
  • Epilogue: In Memoriam
  • A Note on Historical and Ethnographic Anonymity, Archives, and Access.

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