A Heart for the Work is popular PDF and ePub book, written by Claire L. Wendland in 2010-09-15, it is a fantastic choice for those who relish reading online the Social Science genre. Let's immerse ourselves in this engaging Social Science book by exploring the summary and details provided below. Remember, A Heart for the Work can be Read Online from any device for your convenience.
A Heart for the Work Book PDF Summary
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. Wendland’s 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 Malawi’s College of Medicine to the turbulence of training at hospitals with gravely ill patients and dramatically inadequate supplies, staff, and technology, Wendland’s 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.
Detail Book of A Heart for the Work PDF
- Author : Claire L. Wendland
- Release : 15 September 2010
- Publisher : University of Chicago Press
- ISBN : 9780226893280
- Genre : Social Science
- Total Page : 346 pages
- Language : English
- PDF File Size : 11,9 Mb
If you're still pondering over how to secure a PDF or EPUB version of the book A Heart for the Work by Claire L. Wendland, don't worry! All you have to do is click the 'Get Book' buttons below to kick off your Download or Read Online journey. Just a friendly reminder: we don't upload or host the files ourselves.