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Africanizing Oncology: Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda de Marissa Mika

Africanizing Oncology: Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda: New African Histories

Autor Marissa Mika
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 oct 2022

Publicul țintă format din studenți în antropologie medicală, cercetători ai istoriei africane și practicieni în sănătate globală va descoperi în Africanizing Oncology o analiză riguroasă a modului în care îngrijirea medicală supraviețuiește în condiții de criză. Putem afirma că lucrarea Marissa Mika depășește granițele unei simple istorii instituționale, transformând Institutul de Cancer din Uganda într-o lentilă prin care observăm transformările politice și sociale ale țării din perioada postcolonială până în prezent. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care autoarea integrează surse eterogene — de la arhitectura clădirilor și dosarele pacienților, până la corespondența privată a oncologilor americani — pentru a documenta reziliența personalului medical ugandez.

Din punct de vedere al experienței de lectură, textul oferă un ritm susținut de studiile de caz și de dovezile etnografice, evitând abstractizarea excesivă în favoarea dimensiunii umane a biomedicinei. Găsim în această carte o documentare precisă a modului în care inovația apare din necesitate în contexte marcate de lipsuri economice și instabilitate. Africanizing Oncology acoperă o arie tematică similară cu Virus Research in Twentieth-Century Uganda de Julia Ross Cummiskey, ambele investigând supraviețuirea centrelor de cercetare prin regimuri politice succesive, însă lucrarea de față se distinge printr-o abordare mai interdisciplinară, punând un accent sporit pe intersecția dintre tehnologia medicală și construcția identității naționale. Este o contribuție esențială la seria New African Histories, oferind un context istoric necesar pentru înțelegerea crizei actuale a bolilor cronice pe continentul african.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780821425091
ISBN-10: 0821425099
Pagini: 284
Ilustrații: 9
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Ohio University Press
Colecția Ohio University Press
Seria New African Histories

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru specialiștii în sănătate globală și istoria medicinei, această carte oferă o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care oncologia a fost adaptată local într-un stat postcolonial. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a legăturii dintre politică și accesul la tratament, descoperind cum un institut de cercetare poate deveni un simbol al rezistenței și creativității intelectuale africane în fața crizelor economice și epidemiologice repetate.

Despre autor

Marissa Mika este un cercetător interdisciplinar a cărui activitate se situează la intersecția dintre istoria contemporană a Africii, studiile de știință și tehnologie (STS) și antropologia medicală. Cercetările sale, începute în 2010 la Institutul de Cancer din Uganda, se concentrează pe istoria politică a sănătății publice și pe modul în care comunitățile africane își modelează propriile sisteme medicale. Prin Africanizing Oncology, ea contribuie la un nou val de studii dedicate acțiunilor și aspirațiilor intelectuale ale africanilor după obținerea independenței, aducând în prim-plan rolul experților locali în peisajul global al cercetării biomedicale.

Descriere scurtă

An innovative contemporary history that blends insights from a variety of disciplines to highlight how a storied African cancer institute has shaped lives and identities in postcolonial Uganda. Over the past decade, an increasingly visible crisis of cancer in Uganda has made local and international headlines. Based on transcontinental research and public engagement with the Uganda Cancer Institute that began in 2010, Africanizing Oncology frames the cancer hospital as a microcosm of the Ugandan state, as a space where one can trace the lived experiences of Ugandans in the twentieth century. Ongoing ethnographic fieldwork, patient records, oral histories, private papers from US oncologists, American National Cancer Institute records, British colonial office reports, and even the architecture of the institute itself show how Ugandans understood and continue to shape ideas about national identity, political violence, epidemics, and economic life. Africanizing Oncology describes the political, social, technological, and biomedical dimensions of how Ugandans created, sustained, and transformed this institute over the past half century. With insights from science and technology studies and contemporary African history, Marissa Mika’s work joins a new wave of contemporary histories of the political, technological, moral, and intellectual aspirations and actions of Africans after independence. It contributes to a growing body of work on chronic disease and situates the contemporary urgency of the mounting cancer crisis on the continent in a longer history of global cancer research and care. With its creative integration of African studies, science and technology studies, and medical anthropology, Africanizing Oncology speaks to multiple scholarly communities.

Recenzii

“Mika’s lively history shows how Ugandan physician-scientists used cancer research to build oncology care and infrastructure over five decades of labile national politics, pervasive scarcity, and often ephemeral international partnerships. This engaging account illuminates struggles that shaped both global oncology knowledge and the fates of hundreds of thousands of Ugandans facing cancer diagnoses.”—Claire L. Wendland, author of A Heart for the Work: Journeys through an African Medical School

“Based on rich historical and ethnographic research, Africanizing Oncology provides an intimate, and at times harrowing view of the day-to-day activities of care, research, and healing that permitted physicians, researchers, nurses, and patients to survive civil war, structural adjustment, and massive global disparities in health resources to build and sustain an African cancer research institute. The book is a remarkable achievement.”—Randall M. Packard, author or A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples

“In this historically and ethnographically rich book, Marissa Mika shows how African doctors and nurses practice oncology by creating, adapting, and transforming medical infrastructures. Tracing the life of the Uganda Cancer Institute through historical periods of independence, dictatorship, war, structural adjustment, and the HIV pandemic, this powerful book reveals the challenges and opportunities of Africanizing oncology. This is a landmark study on the history—and future—of global oncology.”—Carlo Caduff, author of The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger

“In recounting half a century of research and care at the Uganda Cancer Institute, Marissa Mika tells an unforgettable story of the power of connections and the consequences of their loss. Ugandan physician/researchers and their staff proved the value of therapies because they had made friendships that motivated families to return to Kampala for follow-up, but that knowledge became useless when funders’ priorities changed and international partnerships ended. Mika’s story of UCI shows horrifying wounds—and the possibility of healing—in postindependence Uganda, in global health, and in the way we think about the world.”—Holly Hanson, author of To Speak and Be Heard: Seeking Good Government in Uganda, ca. 1500–2015

Notă biografică

Marissa Mika is a visiting scholar at the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society at the University of California, Berkeley.

Descriere

Combining methods from African studies, science and technology studies, and medical anthropology, Marissa Mika considers the Uganda Cancer Institute as a microcosm of the Ugandan state and as a lens through which to trace the political, technological, moral, and intellectual aspirations and actions of health care providers and patients.