Marissa Mika, "Africanizing Oncology: Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda" (Ohio UP, 2021)
New Books in African Studies
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What Was the Afterlife of Colonial Medical Projects?
i thank you so much for your kind words about my new book, Am. I was inspired by a flurry of work that's been done on the history of health and healing in africa. A lot of this work does wind up cusing on kind of junk andditritis, or improvisation,. Or spaces of medical care am where things are not working. But i didn't want to focus only on what wasn't working - because they're getting up and making things work every single day. In an engage with all these works, i don't feel that in the setting that i was working in, if i was only going to focus on broken things, that i would not
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