A heart for the work : journeys through an African medical school / Claire L. Wendland.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

xiv, 330 pages ; 24 cm

Prologue: arrival stories -- Introduction: moral order and medical science -- All part of the same big mess: Mkume Lifa -- Medicine and healing in a postcolonial state -- Serving our nation: Joe Phoya -- In the district: Evelyn Kazembe -- Paths to medicine -- Welcome to the college of medicine -- Seeing deeply and seeing through in the basic science years -- Welcome to Queens -- The word made flesh: hospital experience and the clinical crisis -- Complications: Johnson Chisale -- On the ward: Enelesi Nyirenda -- Resource is a verb: realities and responses -- Someone else in this world: Duncan Kasinja -- As human as everybody else: Zaithwa Mthindi -- Doctors for the people: theory and practice -- Epilogue: departure.

Includes bibliographical references and index.