Marissa Mika, "Africanizing Oncology: Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda" (Ohio UP, 2021)
New Books in African Studies
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The Language of Radiation Therapy
There is no word for junk in lugonda, and you refer to the machine yourself as but the hospital staff did not. So i wonder, how does this difference in cognitive approach of not having the language to describe the concept of junk, or not using that effect how the staff kept things going under the most difficult circumstances? Absolutely so. The radiotherapy story in in the book is really interesting, and i hope that readers spend some time with it. Others also. It's written up as a separate piece for technology and culture. But this is basically a chapter that explores and traces the history of donated, of a donated radio therapy machine.
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