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An african oncology ward in an emerging cancer epidemic, by julie livingston. Between 2006 and 2009, i worked for long periods in the ward doing ethnographic research for my book, improvising medicine. May 26, 2018 for many clinicians, the word improvisation has a pejorative whiffit smacks of being lazy, unprepared, or unprofessional. Improvisingmedicine download improvisingmedicine ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub, and mobi format. Medical anthropology is a subfield of anthropology that draws upon social, cultural, biological, and linguistic anthropology to better understand those factors which influence health and well being broadly defined, the experience and distribution of illness, the. All photographs in this book by the author, julie livingston. In improvising medicine, julie livingston presents a vivid ethnography of cancer. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Biomedicine is a global system of knowledge and practice, but it is also a highly contextualized pursuit.