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Author:

Wendland, Claire L.

Title:

A heart for the work : journeys through an African medical school / Claire L. Wendland.

Publisher:

The University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xiv, 330 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Medical education--Social aspects--Malawi.
Public health--Malawi.
Education, Medical--Malawi--Personal Narratives.
Public Health--Malawi--Personal Narratives.
Social Medicine--Malawi--Personal Narratives.
Medical education--Social aspects.
Public health.
Malawi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-317) and index.

Contents:

t Introduction: Epilogue: departure. t Introduction: Moral order and medical science -- All part of the same big mess: Mkume Lifa -- Medicine and healing in a postcolonial state -- Serving our nation: Joe Phoya -- In the district: Evelyn Kazembe -- Paths to medicine -- Welcome to the college of medicine -- Seeing deeply and seeing through in the basic science years -- Welcome to Queens -- The word made flesh: hospital experience and the clinical crisis -- Complications: Johnson Chisale -- On the ward: Enelesi Nyirenda -- Resource is a verb: realities and responses -- Someone else in this world: Duncan Kasinja -- As human as everybody else: Zaithwa Mthindi -- Doctors for the people: theory and practice -- Epilogue: departure.

ISBN:

0226893278 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226893273 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226893251 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780226893259 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)495597180

LCCN:

2009045732

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)