Zvinorwadza, a very common formulation heard among patients in the Mberengwa district, Zimbabwe, means -it is painful- or -it hurts-. This book deals with patients in a rural area of southern Africa and poses two basic questions: What does it mean to be ill in this part of the world and what do patients life-worlds look like? Patients illness experiences are described with the word pain, anxiety and sometimes despair; their social situations are often marked by vulnerability, exposedness and insecurity which apply to both genders, but...