Suffering and Smiling
A Diagnosis of African Impoverishment
Published on 22. December 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
552 pages
978-0-7618-4351-1 (ISBN)
Description
Suffering and Smiling is an examination of the myriad challenges of impoverishment facing Africa and Africans in the new millennium. Selected African states and institutions are examined using the patient-physician relationship and the various systems of the human body as models. The major diseases and maladies and the impact of HIV/AIDS are examined as well as the challenges to the continent's cardiovascular system (educational), nutritional needs (food and nutrition), skeletal system (infrastructure), respiratory system (resource use), and autoimmune system (police and military systems). The Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe are individually diagnosed.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham, MD
United States
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
798 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7618-4351-1 (9780761843511)
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Sterling Johnson is a Professor of Political Science at Central Michigan University. A former Foreign Service officer, Professor Johnson teaches courses in African Politics, International Law, International Politics, and U.S. Foreign Policy. Dr. Michael Johnson is a missionary surgeon with the World Gospel Mission and has served in Kenya for over twenty years. Lawrence Poree, M.D., Ph.D., D.PH., is a neuro-surgeon specializing in pain control.
Content
Chapter 1 1: A Continental Medical Crisis
Chapter 2 2: The Chief Complaint: Impoverishment
Chapter 3 3: What is Africa? A Continental Profile
Chapter 4 4: The Major Maladies
Chapter 5 5: HIV + AFRICA
Chapter 6 6: A History of the Present Illness
Chapter 7 7: The DRC: A Diarrheatic State
Chapter 8 8: The War-Traumatized Cote D'Ivoire
Chapter 9 9: Kenya: Cancerous Corruption & Poisonous Politics
Chapter 10 10: Liberia: Political Schizophrenia
Chapter 11 11: Nigeria: Administrative Sclerosis
Chapter 12 12: Rwanda: Mass Psychosis & Genocide
Chapter 13 13: Sierra Leone: Compromised Auto-Immunity
Chapter 14 14: South Africa's Mixed Prognosis
Chapter 15 15: Uganda: Psychotic Leadership
Chapter 16 16: Zimbabwe: Starving to Vote
Chapter 17 17: Death Merchants
Chapter 18 18: The Heent Examination
Chapter 19 19: Education: The Cardiovascular System
Chapter 20 20: Nutrition: The Gastrointestinal System
Chapter 21 21: The Respiratory System: Inert Resource Usage
Chapter 22 22: Auto-Immune Systems: The Military and Police
Chapter 23 23: The Skeletal System: Infrastructure
Chapter 24 24: The Central Nervous System
Chapter 25 25: The Psychological State
Chapter 26 26: Diagnosis, Prognosis & Treatment
Chapter 2 2: The Chief Complaint: Impoverishment
Chapter 3 3: What is Africa? A Continental Profile
Chapter 4 4: The Major Maladies
Chapter 5 5: HIV + AFRICA
Chapter 6 6: A History of the Present Illness
Chapter 7 7: The DRC: A Diarrheatic State
Chapter 8 8: The War-Traumatized Cote D'Ivoire
Chapter 9 9: Kenya: Cancerous Corruption & Poisonous Politics
Chapter 10 10: Liberia: Political Schizophrenia
Chapter 11 11: Nigeria: Administrative Sclerosis
Chapter 12 12: Rwanda: Mass Psychosis & Genocide
Chapter 13 13: Sierra Leone: Compromised Auto-Immunity
Chapter 14 14: South Africa's Mixed Prognosis
Chapter 15 15: Uganda: Psychotic Leadership
Chapter 16 16: Zimbabwe: Starving to Vote
Chapter 17 17: Death Merchants
Chapter 18 18: The Heent Examination
Chapter 19 19: Education: The Cardiovascular System
Chapter 20 20: Nutrition: The Gastrointestinal System
Chapter 21 21: The Respiratory System: Inert Resource Usage
Chapter 22 22: Auto-Immune Systems: The Military and Police
Chapter 23 23: The Skeletal System: Infrastructure
Chapter 24 24: The Central Nervous System
Chapter 25 25: The Psychological State
Chapter 26 26: Diagnosis, Prognosis & Treatment