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Connected lives : families, households, health and care in South Africa / edited by Nolwazi Mkhwanazi & Lenore Manderson.

Penn Museum Library RA418.5.F3 C67 2020
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Mkhwanazi, Nolwazi, editor.
Manderson, Lenore, editor.
George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Families--Health and hygiene--South Africa.
Families.
Social medicine--South Africa.
Social medicine.
Social Medicine.
Family.
Families--Health and hygiene.
South Africa.
Medical Subjects:
Social Medicine.
Family.
South Africa.
Physical Description:
viii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Cape Town, South Africa : HSRC Press, 2020.
Summary:
This edited volume illustrates the changing constitution and the variability of households, fluid understandings of family, and the impact of these in the context of life changes and health problems. Through 29 case studies of people of diverse backgrounds, the authors explore the household as a site for the production of health and care.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Changing family structures and everyday relationships of care / Nolwazi Mkhwanazi
ch. 2 Making families / Lenore Manderson
Case study 2.1 The complexity of care in young families
Nolwazi Mkhwanazi
Case study 2.2 Too old to have a baby
Ziyanda Majombozi
Case study 2.3 Families, emergency and birth progress after apartheid
Kathleen Lome McDougall
Case study 2.4 Birthing Lessy
Cheyenne Jordaan
Case study 2.5 Single in Soweto
Langelihle Mlotshwa and Sonja Merten
Case study 2.6 Beautiful blessings
Casey Golomski and Gabby Dlamini
ch. 3 Family-keeping / Lenore Manderson
Case study 3.1 Being a good mother
Sara Jewett Nieuwoudt
Case study 3.2 `I don't want friends I have family'
Nirvana Pillay
Case study 3.3 Connected
Deirdre Blackie
Case study 3.4 `I did well for my family'
Susann Huschke
Case study 3.5 Tender blessing care
Lebohang Masango
ch. 4 How men care / Nolwazi Mkhwanazi
Case study 4.1 Sandile's story
Nozipho Mvune and Deevia Bhana
Case study 4.2 Saving face
Alison Swartz
Case study 4.3 The grants shopping basket
Rebecca Hodes
Case study 4.4 On being a father
Mzikazi Nduna and Welmari Bouwer
Case study 4.5 Responsible masculinity
Edmond Madhuha and Lorena Nunez Carrasco
Case study 4.6 Hitting out
Ruari-Santiago McBride and Mzwakhe Khumalo
ch. 5 Everyday care and illness / Nolwazi Mkhwanazi
Case study 5.1 The whistling of rats
Susan Levine, Alison Swartz and Hanna-Andrea Rother
Case study 5.2 Sihleng'imizi
Tessa Hochfeld, Jenita Chiba and Leila Patel
Case study 5.3 The ma'sclosure of an adolescent's HIV status
Rebecca Hodes, Beth Vale and Elona Toska
Case study 5.4 Catching women before they fall out of the world
Anna Versfeld
Case study 5.5 A family affair
Lario Viljoen, Hanlie Myburgh and Lindsey Reynolds on behalf of the HPTN 071 (PopART) team
Case study 5.6 Blood ties
Emily Avera
ch. 6 As families age / Nolwazi Mkhwanazi
Case study 6.1 Healthy aging
Monde Makiwane, Ntombizonke A Gumede and Mzolisi Makiwane
Case study 6.2 Caring, communities and poverty
Lenore Manderson
Case study 6.3 Nomabali's story
Stine Helium Braathen and Leslie Swartz
Case study 6.4 Death and migrant communities of care
Linda Musariri and Eileen Moyer
Case study 6.5 `Suffering grannies'
lessica Ruthven
Case study 6.6 Caring for the dead
Lorena Nunez Carrasco
ch. 7 Families, care and support / Lenore Manderson.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-222) and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
ISBN:
0796925852
9780796925855
OCLC:
1141946557
Publisher Number:
99987267158

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