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Malawian (Hi)Stories and the Medical Humanities:

A Digital Repository for Arts, Humanities and Health Resources

This list is meant to be a growing resource to guide visitors to our site to medical humanities scholarship. If you would like to recommend additional readings, please contact us: malawimedhumsnetwork@gmail.com

Articles
  • Ashforth, Adam. “Poison, Medicine and the Power of Secret Knowledge.” Witchcraft, Violence and Democracy in South Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 133-53.
  • Assah, Augustine H. ‘To Speak or Not to Speak with the Whole Mouth: Textualisation of Taboo Subjects in Europhone African Literature’, Journal of Black Studies, 36 (2006): 497-514
  • Baumgardner, Dennis J. “The value in verifying medical folklore”. Journal of Patient Centered Research and Reviews 2017; 4:pp. 101-3.
  • Busia, Kofi. “Collaboration between Traditional Health Practitioners and Conventional Health Practitioners: Some Country Experiences.” The African Health Monitor – World Health Organzation, no. 13 (2010): http://ahm.afro.who.int/issue13/HTML/article5.html.
  • Durie, M. “The health of indigenous peoples: Depends on genetics, politics, and socioeconomic factors” British Medical Journal 326 (2003): 510-511.
  • Hawken, M Hanne and S J. “Metaphors for Illness in Contemporary Media.” Journal of Medical Humanities 33, no. 2 (2007): 93-99.
  • Justice, Daniel Heath. “Conjuring Marks: Furthering Indigenous Empowerment through Literature” American Indian Quarterly Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature 28.1/2 (2004): 3-11.
  • Kaphangawani, Didier N. “Themes in a Chewa Epistemology.” In The African Philosophy Reader, edited by PH Coetzee and APJ Roux, 240-44. London Routledge, 1998.
  • McDonald, Peter, The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
  • Muula, Adamson and Fresier Maseko. “Survival and Retention Strategies for Malawian Health Professionals “. Regional Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa (EQUINET) no. 35 (2005): 1-28.
  • Njogu, Kimani. “Rekindling Efficacy: Storytelling for Health” in Media and Identity in Africa. Ed. by Kimani Njogu, John Middleton, F.M Middleton (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2009).
  • Slade, Diana and Hermine Scheeres, Marie Manidis, Rick Iedema, Roger Dunston, Jane Stein-Parbury, Christian Matthiessen, Maria Herke and Jeannette McGregor. “Emergency Communication: The Discursive Challenges Facing Emergency Clinicians and Patients in Hospital Emergency Departments.” [In English]. Journal of Mixed Methods Research 2, no. 3 (2008): 271-98.
  • Soois, Anneke. “Narrative Health Research: Exploring Big and Small Stories as Analytical Tools.” Health: An interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 17, no. 1 (2013): 93 – 110.
  • Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine
Books
  • African Literature:
    Chimombo, Steve. The Hyena Wears Darkness.  Zomba Wasi Publicatoins, 2006.
  • McGregor, Liz. Khabzela: The Life and Times of a South African (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2014) Kindle Edition.
  • Mpe, Phaswane. Welcome to Our Hillbrow: A Novel of Post Apartheid South Africa (Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 2001), Kindle Edition.
  • Verghese, Abraham. Cutting for Stone: A Novel (New York: Vintage Books, 2009).
  • General literature:
    Camus, Albert. The Plague. 1947
  • Devi, Mahasweta. Breast Stories (Kolkata: Seagull Books Ltd, 1997).
  • Márquez, Gabriel García. Love in the Time of Cholera. 1985.
  • Theory and Practice:
    Brophy, Sarah. Witnessing AIDS (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004).
  • Chirimuuta, Richard and Rosalind Chirimuuta. AIDS, Africa and Racism (London: Free Association Books, 1989).
  • Caruth, Cathy. Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).
  • Charon, Rita. Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
  • Chimombo, Steve. Aids Artists and Authors: Popular Responses to the Epidemic: 1985-2006.  Zomba: Wasi Publications, 2007.
  • Crane, Joanna. Scrambling for Africa: Aids Expertise and the Rise of American Global Health Science.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013.
  • Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence. Edited by Terence and Paul Slack Ranger Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
  • Frank, Arthur W. The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics [in English].  Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995.
  • Goldacre, Ben Bad Science [in English].  London: Harper Collins Publisher, 2008.
  • Grünkemeier, Ellen. Breaking the Silence: South African Representations of HIV/AIDS. (Suffolk: James Currey, 2013).
  • Hooper, Edward. The River: A Journey Back to the Source of HIV and AIDS (New York: Penguin Science, 1998)
  • Lwanda, John. Politics, Culture and Medicine in Malawi: Historical Continuities and Ruptures with Special Reference to Hiv/Aids. Theses No.6.  Zomba: Kachere Series 2004.
  • Lwanda, John Lloyd Chipembere. Colour Class and Culture: A Preliminary Communication into the Creation of Doctors in Malawi [in English].  Glasgow: Dudu Nsomba Publications, 2008.
  • Maretzki, Thomas W. “Including the Physician in Healer-Centred Research: Retrospect and Prospect “. In Physicians of Western Medicine: Anthropological Approaches to Theory and Practice, edited by Robert A. Hahn and Atwood D. Gaines, 23-47. Dordrecht: D Reidel Publishing Company, 1985.
  • Morris, Brian. Chewa Medical Botany: A Study of Herbalism in Southern Malawi.  Berlin: LIT Verlag Münster, 1996.
  • Norridge, Zoe. Perceiving Pain in African Literature.  Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
  • Shilts, Randy. And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic. (London: Penguin, 1987)
  • Soko, Boston. Nchimi Chikanga: The Battle against Witchcraft in Malawi Blantyre: Kachere Series, 1987.
  • Tauber, Alfred I. The Immune Self: Theory or Metaphor [in English].  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. doi:filed in Illness Metaphors/book notes.
  • Wilson, Anika. Folklore, Gender and Aids in Malawi [in English].  New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013.
Film
  • Alufeyo (2015) Malawi.
  • Angels in America (2004) HBO Films, directed by Mike Nichols.
  • Life, Above All (2010) South Africa (Sotho) directed by Oliver Schmitz.
Resources
Theater and Drama
  • Kushner, Tony. Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (New York: Theatre Communications Group, Inc., 1995)
Theses