Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-317) and index.
Prologue: arrival stories -- Introduction: moral order and medical science -- All part of the same big mess: Mkume Lifa -- Medicine and healing in a postcolonial state -- Serving our nation: Joe Phoya -- In the district: Evelyn Kazembe -- Paths to medicine -- Welcome to the college of medicine -- Seeing deeply and seeing through in the basic science years -- Welcome to Queens -- The word made flesh: hospital experience and the clinical crisis -- Complications: Johnson Chisale -- On the ward: Enelesi Nyirenda -- Resource is a verb: realities and responses -- Someone else in this world: Duncan Kasinja -- As human as everybody else: Zaithwa Mthindi -- Doctors for the people: theory and practice -- Epilogue: departure.