Browsing by Author "Abney, Kate"

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    Medicine and the Arts Week 2 - In dialogue about children's voices
    (2015-01-21) Levine, Susan; Callaghan, Nina; Abney, Kate; Hendricks, Marc
    In this video, Associate Professor Susan Levine pose questions to Dr. Hendricks, Dr. Kate Abney, as well as Nina Callaghan in an attempt to unlock some of the synergies that brings their various perspectives into focus. Marc Hendricks is asked how doctors take care of themselves in dealing with the deaths, illness and victories of their patients’ stories. Kate talks about how she has used art as part of her research methodology and discusses how the issue of time surfaced in her work at the TB hospital. Nina provides an example of a child she had worked with. This is the fifth video in Week 2 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    Medicine and the Arts Week 2 - Me and TB: children's accounts of tuberculosis and the clinic
    (2015-01-21) Abney, Kate
    In this video, medical anthropologist Kate Abney shares some of the stories told by young patients in the tuberculosis (TB) wards of hospitals across South Africa’s Western Cape where she worked. She describes how she has helped to facilitate storytelling among young TB patients through art. This is the third video in Week 2 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    Whoever said a little 'dirt' doesn't hurt? : exploring tuberculosis (TB)-related stigma in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
    (2011) Abney, Kate; Macdonald, Helen
    This paper considers the significance of Tuberculosis (TB)-related stigma and stigmatising acts in areas of Khayelitsha Township in Cape Town, South Africa. Data is drawn from three months of in-depth participant observation, interviews and support group sessions. Stigma is a moral process which emerges within social webs of meaning making. By focusing on patient narratives and local illness transmission models (ITMs) both 'enacted' and 'felt' stigma are explored. Three themes emerged during fieldwork: the singularity of dirt as a mode of TB transmission, the paradoxical visibility of the face hidden by the clinical mask, and the ordering/disordering intentions of those who gossip. Utilising Das' (1990) idea of 'organising images' to understand these themes, it is evident they are each imbued with power and meaning within local worlds and thus extend our understanding of stigma and stigmatisation. I argue for the theoretical expansion of stigma through employing alternative literatures, such as the anthropology of violence, witchcraft and narrative studies. In addition, new methods need to be explored which mirror the adversity faced by those living with TB. In this work I suggest 'provoking' stigma is the most effective manner to understand its effects.