A Heart for the Care: Affect, Kin, and Care Work in a Zambian Hospital

IF 2 2区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Medical Anthropology Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-12-19 DOI:10.1111/maq.12837

Emma Nelson Bunkley, Comfort Asante, Sarah Burack, Lindsey Kaufman, Sam Miti, Jean Hunleth

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Abstract

At the only standalone pediatric hospital in Zambia, patient wellbeing often rests in the hands of bedsiders. Bedsiders are caregivers, often family, who sit at the patient's bedside, feeding, cleaning them, and running medical errands. Bedsiders are critical human infrastructure for the hospital and its staff. In our research, we heard repeatedly that bedsiders must have a “heart” for caregiving, taking on unremunerated and exhausting informal labor. We draw on Wendland's “heart for the work,” a phrase commonly used among healthcare workers in Malawi and Zambia describing the medical profession, to explore what this metaphor reveals about care.

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关爱之心：赞比亚医院中的情感、亲情和护理工作。

在赞比亚唯一一家独立的儿科医院，病人的福祉往往掌握在床旁护理人员的手中。床边护理员通常是病人的家人，他们坐在病人床边，为病人喂食、擦洗身体并处理医疗事务。床边人员是医院及其员工的重要人力基础设施。在我们的研究中，我们一再听到，陪床人员必须有一颗护理的 "心"，承担无偿的、令人疲惫不堪的非正式劳动。我们借鉴马拉维和赞比亚医护人员在描述医疗职业时常用的 Wendland 的 "工作之心 "一词，来探讨这一隐喻对护理工作的启示。

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Medical Anthropology Quarterly Multiple-

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4.20

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4.50%

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期刊介绍： Medical Anthropology Quarterly: International Journal for the Analysis of Health publishes research and theory in the field of medical anthropology. This broad field views all inquiries into health and disease in human individuals and populations from the holistic and cross-cultural perspective distinctive of anthropology as a discipline -- that is, with an awareness of species" biological, cultural, linguistic, and historical uniformity and variation. It encompasses studies of ethnomedicine, epidemiology, maternal and child health, population, nutrition, human development in relation to health and disease, health-care providers and services, public health, health policy, and the language and speech of health and health care.