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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
- 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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