Description
Book SynopsisIn Zambia, due to the rise of TB and the connected HIV epidemic, a large number of children have experienced the illness or death of at least one parent. This study examines how well intentioned practitioners fail to realise that children take on active caregiving roles when their guardians become seriously ill and demonstrates why understanding children's care is crucial for global health policy.
Trade Review"Hunleth presents a moving, yet clear-eyed, account of children's hitherto unacknowledged caregiving in the tuberculosis and HIV epidemic.
Children as Caregivers is a spectacular demonstration of the vital importance of detailed ethnography for policy development."
-- Anthony Simpson * author of Boys to Men in the Shadow of AIDS: Masculinities and HIV Risk in Zambia *
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Children as Caregivers offers a very interesting insight on how discourses on prevention, care, and welfare in the context of infectious diseases should not ignore the specific contribution provided by children." * The Lancet *
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Children as Caregivers is a rare and timely ethnographic study of childhood and illness. Readers interested in expanding their knowledge of critical global health, infectious disease, and kinship politics will find tremendous value in this book. As a testament to ethnography’s value in the social sciences,
Children as Caregivers provides researchers with new, creative methods on how to capture children’s voices and experiences, in all their complexity." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *
"Children's Carework in a Global Pandemic: Anthropology of Childhood and Infectious Disease" interview with Jean Hunleth
https://culanth.org/fieldsights/childrens-carework-in-a-global-pandemic-anthropology-of-childhood-and-infectious-disease * AnthroPod *
"Hunleth presents a moving, yet clear-eyed, account of children's hitherto unacknowledged caregiving in the tuberculosis and HIV epidemic.
Children as Caregivers is a spectacular demonstration of the vital importance of detailed ethnography for policy development."
-- Anthony Simpson * author of Boys to Men in the Shadow of AIDS: Masculinities and HIV Risk in Zambia *
"
Children as Caregivers offers a very interesting insight on how discourses on prevention, care, and welfare in the context of infectious diseases should not ignore the specific contribution provided by children." * The Lancet *
"
Children as Caregivers is a rare and timely ethnographic study of childhood and illness. Readers interested in expanding their knowledge of critical global health, infectious disease, and kinship politics will find tremendous value in this book. As a testament to ethnography’s value in the social sciences,
Children as Caregivers provides researchers with new, creative methods on how to capture children’s voices and experiences, in all their complexity." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *
"Children's Carework in a Global Pandemic: Anthropology of Childhood and Infectious Disease" interview with Jean Hunleth
https://culanth.org/fieldsights/childrens-carework-in-a-global-pandemic-anthropology-of-childhood-and-infectious-disease * AnthroPod *
Table of Contents Introduction
1. Growing Up in George
2. Residence and Relationships
3. Between Silence and Disclosure
4. Following the Medicine
5. Care by Women and Children
6. Children and Global Health
Postscript: Childhood Tuberculosis
Notes
References
Index
