{"product_id":"a-heart-for-the-work-claire-l-wendland-9780226893259","title":"A Heart for the Work: Journeys through an African Medical School","description":"\u003cp\u003eBurnout is common among doctors in the West, so one might assume that a medical career in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, would place far greater strain on the idealism that drives many doctors. But, as \u003ci\u003eA Heart for the Work\u003c\/i\u003e makes clear, Malawian medical students learn to confront poverty creatively, experiencing fatigue and frustration but also joy and commitment on their way to becoming physicians. The first ethnography of medical training in the global South, Claire L. Wendland's book is a moving and perceptive look at medicine in a world where the transnational movement of people and ideas creates both devastation and possibility. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Wendland, a physician anthropologist, conducted extensive interviews and worked in wards, clinics, and operating theaters alongside the student doctors whose stories she relates. From the relative calm of Malawi's College of Medicine to the turbulence of training at hospitals with gravely ill patients and dramatically inadequate supplies, staff, and technology, Wendland's work reveals the way these young doctors engage the contradictions of their circumstances, shedding new light on debates about the effects of medical training, the impact of traditional healing, and the purposes of medicine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Claire L. Wendland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226893251\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226893259\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d","brand":"Claire L. Wendland","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48013708787967,"sku":"9780226893259","price":102.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_00077c1d-a469-4588-ae5c-7ed8d559d630.jpg?v=1767744274","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-heart-for-the-work-claire-l-wendland-9780226893259","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}