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Book SynopsisSuffering and Smiling is an examination of the myriad challenges of impoverishment facing Africa and Africans in the new millennium. Selected African states and institutions are examined using the patient-physician relationship and the various systems of the human body as models. The major diseases and maladies and the impact of HIV/AIDS are examined as well as the challenges to the continent''s cardiovascular system (educational), nutritional needs (food and nutrition), skeletal system (infrastructure), respiratory system (resource use), and autoimmune system (police and military systems). The Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe are individually diagnosed.
Table of ContentsChapter 1 1: A Continental Medical Crisis Chapter 2 2: The Chief Complaint: Impoverishment Chapter 3 3: What is Africa? A Continental Profile Chapter 4 4: The Major Maladies Chapter 5 5: HIV + AFRICA Chapter 6 6: A History of the Present Illness Chapter 7 7: The DRC: A Diarrheatic State Chapter 8 8: The War-Traumatized Cote D'Ivoire Chapter 9 9: Kenya: Cancerous Corruption & Poisonous Politics Chapter 10 10: Liberia: Political Schizophrenia Chapter 11 11: Nigeria: Administrative Sclerosis Chapter 12 12: Rwanda: Mass Psychosis & Genocide Chapter 13 13: Sierra Leone: Compromised Auto-Immunity Chapter 14 14: South Africa's Mixed Prognosis Chapter 15 15: Uganda: Psychotic Leadership Chapter 16 16: Zimbabwe: Starving to Vote Chapter 17 17: Death Merchants Chapter 18 18: The Heent Examination Chapter 19 19: Education: The Cardiovascular System Chapter 20 20: Nutrition: The Gastrointestinal System Chapter 21 21: The Respiratory System: Inert Resource Usage Chapter 22 22: Auto-Immune Systems: The Military and Police Chapter 23 23: The Skeletal System: Infrastructure Chapter 24 24: The Central Nervous System Chapter 25 25: The Psychological State Chapter 26 26: Diagnosis, Prognosis & Treatment
