Children as Caregivers : The Global Fight Against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia / Jean Hunleth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunleth, Jean, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The global public health community has focused care and funding on TB and HIV in Zambia, but adult policy-makers, doctors, and humanitarians often ignore children's perspectives as they confront infectious diseases. Well-intentioned practioners fail to realize how children take on active caregiving roles when their guardians become seriously illustrations Using ethnographic methods, and listening to the voices of children as well as adults, Hunleth makes the caregiving work of children visible. Children actively seek to "get closer" to ill guardians by providing good care. Both children and ill adults define good care as children's attentiveness to adults' physical needs, their ability to carry out treatment and medication programs in the home, and above all, the need to maintain physical closeness and proximity.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2016 Front List Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 100270

ISBN:

9780813588063

OCLC:

973140717

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access