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Many people associate hospital treatment with ‘getting better’, the restoration to health and normal life. The onset of a lifethreatening disease such as cancer, however, can transform the hospital into a place of constant struggle and suffering. Hospitalisation in this sense coincides with the deterioration of patients’ and their families’ overall wellbeing. Drawing on twelve months of ethnographic research in a cancer ward in Kenya, this monograph shows that patients’ suffering should be viewed within the context of a wider spectrum of adversity. The book demonstrates the ambiguity of a hospital stay and treatment, showing how a hospital can both alleviate as well as increase human suffering. The author advocates patient-centred hospital ethnography as a way to improve the understanding of cancer patients’ needs, both medical and nonmedical, as they struggle to restore their wellbeing.Mulemi, B.A.Geest, J.D.M. van derhttp://dare.uva.nl/record/328472application/pdfhttp://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=161828http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=161829http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=161830http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=161831http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=161832http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=161833http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=161834http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=161835http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=161836http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=161837http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=161838http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=161839http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=161840http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=161841http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=161842http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=161843http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=161852http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=161844http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=161845http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=161846http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=161847http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=161848http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=161849http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=161850http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=165312enAfrican Studies Centre2010Coping with cancer and adversity : Hospital ethnography in KenyaDoctoral thesisIt is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the copyright holder (usually the author), other then for strictly personal, individual use.