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Livingston, Julie.

Debility and the moral imagination in Botswana [electronic resource] / Julie Livingston. - Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2005. - xii, 310 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - African systems of thought . - African systems of thought. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : themes and orientation -- Family matters and money matters -- Public health and developing persons -- Male migration and the pluralization of medicine -- Increasing autonomy, entangled therapeutics, and hidden wombs -- Postcolonial development and constrained care.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social change--Health aspects--Botswana.
Human body--Social aspects--Botswana.
Public health--Botswana.
Asthenia--Botswana.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Botswana--Social conditions--Health aspects.--20th century
Botswana--Economic conditions--Health aspects.--20th century
Botswana--Moral conditions--Health aspects.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HN806.A8 / L58 2005eb

Dewey Class. No.: 362.1/096883