Families, households, health and care in contemporary South Africa
Connected Lives explores how contemporary changes in family-making, household composition and kinship relations influence decisions made about and experiences of care-giving and support.
The 29 case studies that are integrated throughout the book consider how families are constituted, and how, in different households, people care for each other and care for children, the sick and the elderly.
The book draws attention to how people in households manage everyday tasks and challenges, while negotiating structural and economic constraints, and the competing needs and demands of care-giving.
Medical Health & Humanities Africa (MHHA) is a new open network which aims to bring practitioners and researchers across Africa together to develop work in this area, and to provide information on related initiatives across the world.
