Description: Africanizing Oncology : Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda, Hardcover by Mika, Marissa, ISBN 0821424653, ISBN-13 9780821424650, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The author shows how Ugandans used research as a resource for mobilizing and extending cancer care, using the story of how the Uganda Cancer Institute transformed from a small experimental chemotherapy clinical trials unit in the 1960s into a site of oncological excellence in the present. She considers how physician-researchers, particularly Ugandans, refashioned the resources and oncological technologies brought through transnational cancer research partnerships to meet the needs of cancer patients and their caregivers. She relates the stories of doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians, administrators, patients, families, visiting scientists, and others from the 1950s to the present, describing the history of cancer research and care in the country, including colonial medical research on cancer; the founding of the institute and how it survived Idi Amin, civil war, and austerity; and how international partnerships and research initiatives, as well as the increasing visibility of cancer in Uganda as a public health problem, remade the site into something new. She draws on research conducted in archives and institutions, in addition to historical and ethnographic methods involving oral histories and interviews. Annotation ©2022 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Africanizing Oncology : Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda
Number of Pages: 284 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Africanizing Oncology : Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2022
Subject: Internal Medicine, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Disease & Health Issues
Item Weight: 19.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: Social Science, Medical
Author: Marissa Mika
Item Width: 7.4 in
Series: New African Histories Ser.
Format: Hardcover
