Description: Heart for the Work : Journeys Through an African Medical School, Paperback by Wendland, Claire L., ISBN 0226893278, ISBN-13 9780226893273, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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. Wendlands 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 Malawis College of Medicine to the turbulence of training at hospitals with gravely ill patients and dramatically inadequate supplies, staff, and technology, Wendlands 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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Book Title: Heart for the Work : Journeys Through an African Medical School
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Name: Heart for the Work : Journeys Through an African Medical School
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Subject: Education & Training, Public Health, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Publication Year: 2010
Item Weight: 18.9 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 0.9 in
Subject Area: Social Science, Medical
Author: Claire L. Wendland
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
