Lenore Manderson | Medical Anthropologist | Connected Lives: Families, Households, Health, and Care in South Africa (2020)

2020

Connected
Lives

Families, households,
health and care
in contemporary South Africa

Edited by
Nolwazi Mkhwanazi
& Lenore Manderson

Format Paperback
Publisher HSRC

The
Book

Connected lives: Families, households, health and care in contemporary South Africa, illustrates the changing constitution and the variability of households, fluid understandings of family, and the impact of these in the context of life changes and health problems. Through 29 case studies of people of diverse backgrounds in terms of ethnicity, class, sex and gender, of varying ages and from both urban and rural backgrounds, the authors explore the household as a site for the production of health and care. The book illustrates the impact of economic, demographic and social changes on households and families, and considers how these factors influence everyday life, health, wellbeing and care in contemporary South Africa. This book will interest those in global public health, anthropology, and population and demography studies.

The
Authors

Lenore and Nolwazi Connected Lives_lores

Nolwazi Mkhwanazi has a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge (2005), working on early childbearing to examine gender and generational relationships in a South African urban township. She is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand, and presently a senior researcher and director of the Medical Humanities programme at WISER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research). Her research interests revolve around youth, gender and reproductive health issues. She is co-editor, with Deevia Bhana, of Young Families: Gender, Sexuality and Care (2017).

Lenore Manderson is Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Medical Anthropology in the School of Public Health at Wits, with affiliations with Brown and Monash Universities. Her research and publications focus on chronic and infectious disease and social circumstance, with attention to how access to technology unequally interacts and impacts on chronic conditions. She also works on questions of climate change, adaptation and advocacy. She edits the journal Medical Anthropology, and is founding editor of a monograph series, Medical Anthropology: Health, Inequality and Social Justice (Rutgers University Press).

2020

Connected
Lives

Families, households,
health and care
in contemporary South Africa

Edited by
Nolwazi Mkhwanazi
& Lenore Manderson

The
Book

The
Authors

Table of
Contents

Chapter 1. FAMILY STRUCTURES AND EVERYDAY RELATIONSHIPS OF CARE

Chapter 2. MAKING FAMILIES

Chapter 3. FAMILY KEEPING

Chapter 4: HOW MEN CARE

Chapter 5: EVERYDAY CARE AND ILLNESS

Chapter 6: AS FAMILIES AGE

Chapter 7. FAMILIES, CARE AND SUPPORT

University of the Witwatersrand

Monash University

Human Organization

Medical Anthropology: Health, Inequality, and Social Justice

2020

Connected Lives

Families, households, health and care in contemporary South Africa

Edited by Nolwazi Mkhwanazi & Lenore Manderson

The Book

The Authors

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. FAMILY STRUCTURES AND EVERYDAY RELATIONSHIPS OF CARE

Chapter 2. MAKING FAMILIES

Chapter 3. FAMILY KEEPING

Chapter 4: HOW MEN CARE

Chapter 5: EVERYDAY CARE AND ILLNESS

Chapter 6: AS FAMILIES AGE

Chapter 7. FAMILIES, CARE AND SUPPORT

University of the Witwatersrand

Monash University

Human Organization

Medical Anthropology: Health, Inequality, and Social Justice

Connected
Lives

Families, households,
health and care
in contemporary South Africa

Edited by
Nolwazi Mkhwanazi
& Lenore Manderson

The
Book

The
Authors

Table of
Contents