At the foot of Table Mountain: paediatric tuberculosis patient experiences in a centralised treatment facility in Cape Town, South Africa

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dc.contributor.advisorLevine, Susanen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorAbney, Kate Christineen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-21T13:41:45Z
dc.date.available2014-10-21T13:41:45Z
dc.date.issued2014en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe following thesis traces one year of ethnographic research within a contemporary Tuberculosis (TB) treatment facility in Cape Town, South Africa. Brooklyn Chest Hospital (BCH) is considered to be a provincial TB centre of excellence in the Western Cape (Parsons et al 2010) and as such, caters to both adult and paediatric TB patients. While there are other similar facilities in South Africa, BCH specializes in paediatric TB and is the only facility of its kind in the Western Cape Province. Many (but not all) paediatric patients at BCH came from troubled social circumstances. Poverty, violence, substance abuse, and illness featured prominently in their lives. The thesis documents the many entanglements TB presents to patients, their physicians, teachers, and nursing staff in the context of Cape Town. Throughout the thesis, my argument is multi-faceted. Children are configured and classified in different ways: via Biomedicine, children rights and ethics discourse, volunteers working at the hospital, the hospital school space, and through the metaphorical and real burden of time and tedium one experiences within an institutional setting. While focused on children and their experiences, this thesis does not claim to be solely 'childcentred'. Rather, I bring together different perspectives from nurses, doctors, volunteers, family members, and children themselves to re-create the social and material life of a hospital. In doing so, I focus on the category of the child. Configurations- how people make sense of children and their experiences- underlie the process of paediatric patient making. The child is formulated into different categories which are unstable and unsettled. The 'child' appears here in many forms: the child as a biomedical object, a student patient, the child 'in need', and one who is burdened by time.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationAbney, K. C. (2014). <i>At the foot of Table Mountain: paediatric tuberculosis patient experiences in a centralised treatment facility in Cape Town, South Africa</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Social Anthropology. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8690en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationAbney, Kate Christine. <i>"At the foot of Table Mountain: paediatric tuberculosis patient experiences in a centralised treatment facility in Cape Town, South Africa."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Social Anthropology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8690en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationAbney, K. 2014. At the foot of Table Mountain: paediatric tuberculosis patient experiences in a centralised treatment facility in Cape Town, South Africa. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Abney, Kate Christine AB - The following thesis traces one year of ethnographic research within a contemporary Tuberculosis (TB) treatment facility in Cape Town, South Africa. Brooklyn Chest Hospital (BCH) is considered to be a provincial TB centre of excellence in the Western Cape (Parsons et al 2010) and as such, caters to both adult and paediatric TB patients. While there are other similar facilities in South Africa, BCH specializes in paediatric TB and is the only facility of its kind in the Western Cape Province. Many (but not all) paediatric patients at BCH came from troubled social circumstances. Poverty, violence, substance abuse, and illness featured prominently in their lives. The thesis documents the many entanglements TB presents to patients, their physicians, teachers, and nursing staff in the context of Cape Town. Throughout the thesis, my argument is multi-faceted. Children are configured and classified in different ways: via Biomedicine, children rights and ethics discourse, volunteers working at the hospital, the hospital school space, and through the metaphorical and real burden of time and tedium one experiences within an institutional setting. While focused on children and their experiences, this thesis does not claim to be solely 'childcentred'. Rather, I bring together different perspectives from nurses, doctors, volunteers, family members, and children themselves to re-create the social and material life of a hospital. In doing so, I focus on the category of the child. Configurations- how people make sense of children and their experiences- underlie the process of paediatric patient making. The child is formulated into different categories which are unstable and unsettled. The 'child' appears here in many forms: the child as a biomedical object, a student patient, the child 'in need', and one who is burdened by time. DA - 2014 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2014 T1 - At the foot of Table Mountain: paediatric tuberculosis patient experiences in a centralised treatment facility in Cape Town, South Africa TI - At the foot of Table Mountain: paediatric tuberculosis patient experiences in a centralised treatment facility in Cape Town, South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8690 ER - en_ZA
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitationAbney KC. At the foot of Table Mountain: paediatric tuberculosis patient experiences in a centralised treatment facility in Cape Town, South Africa. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Social Anthropology, 2014 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8690en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentSocial Anthropologyen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.titleAt the foot of Table Mountain: paediatric tuberculosis patient experiences in a centralised treatment facility in Cape Town, South Africaen_ZA
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