Saving Lives in Africa - Aids Treatment, Religion and the Politics of Life

This book offers an ethnographic perspective on the practice of Global AIDS treatment in Africa, focused on local Catholic providers in Uganda. By demonstrating how Global AIDS treatment contributes to the local production of new inequalities, the book provides novel lessons on central contradictions of development and humanitarian practice.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction
2. An Anthropology of Global AIDS Treatment
3. Saving Lives and Saving Souls
4. Holistic HIV/AIDS Care
5. Counselling Clients to Follow the Rules of ARV Treatment
6. The Responsible Self and its Limits
7. Home Visits: Instrumentalising Communitarian Compassion
8. Living with Rules
9. Conclusion

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Louise Mubanda Rasmussen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Society and Globalisation at Roskilde University.

Zusammenfassung

This book offers an ethnographic perspective on the practice of Global AIDS treatment in Africa, focused on local Catholic providers in Uganda. By demonstrating how Global AIDS treatment contributes to the local production of new inequalities, the book provides novel lessons on central contradictions of development and humanitarian practice.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: MUBANDA RASMUSSEN, Louise Mubanda Rasmussen, Louise (Roskilde University Mubanda Rasmussen
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781138672413
• ISBN: 978-1-138-67241-3
• Seiten: 160
• Serien: Routledge African Studies; Routledge African Studies
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; Sachbuch > Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft > Politik; Uganda, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Personal & public health, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Development Studies, Personal and public health / health education, HIV / AIDS, Medicine: HIV/AIDS, retroviral diseases, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies