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A Heart for the Work: Journeys through an African Medical School
University of Chicago Press, 2010 Cloth: 978-0-226-89325-9 | Paper: 978-0-226-89327-3 | eISBN: 978-0-226-89328-0 Library of Congress Classification R822.W454 2010 Dewey Decimal Classification 610.7116
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Burnout is common among doctors in the West, so one might assume that a medical career in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, would place far greater strain on the idealism that drives many doctors. But, as A Heart for the Work makes clear, Malawian medical students learn to confront poverty creatively, experiencing fatigue and frustration but also joy and commitment on their way to becoming physicians. The first ethnography of medical training in the global South, Claire L. Wendland’s book is a moving and perceptive look at medicine in a world where the transnational movement of people and ideas creates both devastation and possibility. See other books on: Education & Training | Journeys through | Medical education | Public health | Wendland, Claire L. See other titles from University of Chicago Press |
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A Heart for the Work: Journeys through an African Medical School
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
University of Chicago Press, 2010
Cloth: 978-0-226-89325-9
Paper: 978-0-226-89327-3
eISBN: 978-0-226-89328-0
Cloth: 978-0-226-89325-9
Paper: 978-0-226-89327-3
eISBN: 978-0-226-89328-0
Burnout is common among doctors in the West, so one might assume that a medical career in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, would place far greater strain on the idealism that drives many doctors. But, as A Heart for the Work makes clear, Malawian medical students learn to confront poverty creatively, experiencing fatigue and frustration but also joy and commitment on their way to becoming physicians. The first ethnography of medical training in the global South, Claire L. Wendland’s book is a moving and perceptive look at medicine in a world where the transnational movement of people and ideas creates both devastation and possibility.
Wendland, a physician anthropologist, conducted extensive interviews and worked in wards, clinics, and operating theaters alongside the student doctors whose stories she relates. From the relative calm of Malawi’s College of Medicine to the turbulence of training at hospitals with gravely ill patients and dramatically inadequate supplies, staff, and technology, Wendland’s work reveals the way these young doctors engage the contradictions of their circumstances, shedding new light on debates about the effects of medical training, the impact of traditional healing, and the purposes of medicine.
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