Overview
Winner of the 2018 Association for Africanist Anthropology Elliott P. Skinner Book Award In Zambia, due to the rise of tuberculosis and the closely connected HIV epidemic, a large number of children have experienced the illness or death of at least one parent. Children as Caregivers examines how well intentioned practitioners fail to realize 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. Using ethnographic methods, and listening to the voices of the young as well as adults, Jean Hunleth makes the caregiving work of children visible. She shows how children actively seek to ""get closer"" to ill guardians by providing good care. Both children and ill adults define good care as attentiveness of the young to adults' physical needs, the ability to carry out treatment and medication programs in the home, and above all, the need to maintain physical closeness and proximity. Children understand that losing their guardians will not only be emotionally devastating, but that such loss is likely to set them adrift in Zambian society, where education and advancement depend on maintaining familial, reciprocal relationships. View a gallery of images from the book (https://www.flickr.com/photos/childrenascaregivers) Download the open access ebook.
Full Product Details
Author: Jean Hunleth
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9780813588049
ISBN 10: 0813588049
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 03 March 2017
Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Hunleth presents a moving, yet clear-eyed, account of children's hitherto unacknowledged caregiving in the tuberculosis and HIV epidemic. <i>Children as Caregivers</i> 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
Hunleth presents a moving, yet clear-eyed, account of children's hitherto unacknowledged caregiving in the Tuberculosis and HIV epidemic. <i>Children as Caregivers</i> 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
Author Information
JEAN HUNLETH is an assistant professor in the Division of Public Health Sciences at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri.
