Chapter ID: CBB650616109

Malignant Stories: The Chronicity of Cancer and the Pursuit of Care in Kenya (2021)

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It is early morning in April 2019, just after 7.00 a.m. in one of Kenya’s largest urban public hospitals, in the west of the country. Nurse (‘Sista’) Angela and I are sitting in the room used for counselling patients in the hospital’s fledging ‘Cancer Care Centre’, an outpatient clinic. Nurse Angela is one of the clinic’s three nurses and one of only two with palliative care training in this regional Referral Hospital. She is much loved by patients and staff. Today she wants to talk to me urgently about one of her patients. Sometimes I get the impression that telling

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Authors & Contributors
Cambrosio, Alberto
Comaroff, Jean
Comaroff, John L.
Duffin, Jacalyn M.
Dzorgbo, Dan-Bright S.
Farmer, Paul
Journals
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Social Studies of Science
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Ecology
IEEE Technology and Society Magazine
Pharmacy in History
Publishers
Duke University Press
University of Chicago Press
Harvard University
Columbia University
Brill
Palgrave Macmillan
Concepts
Cancer; tumors
Health care
Public health
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Medicine
Disease and diseases
People
Miller, Elizabeth C.
Miller, James A.
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Kenya
Africa
Uganda
Tanzania (Tanganyika, Zanzibar)
India
Canada
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