Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities - Grounding Global Hiv Treatment in Tanzania

Set in Tanga, a city on the Tanzanian Swahili coast, Dominik Mattes examines the implementation of antiretroviral HIV-treatment (ART) in the area, exploring the manifold infrastructural and social fragilities of treatment provision in public HIV clinics as well as patients' multi-layered struggles of coming to terms with ART in their everyday lives. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, the book shows that, notwithstanding the massive rollout of ART, providing treatment and living a life with HIV in settings like Tanga continue to entail social, economic, and moral challenges and long-term uncertainties, which contradict the global rhetoric of the "normalization of HIV".

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Dominik Mattes is a postdoctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center “Affective Societies” and the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. His research interests include medical anthropology, critical global health, anthropology of religion, as well as anthropology of affect and emotion.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Dominik Mattes
• Verlag: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 13.10.2023
• EAN: 9781805391210
• ISBN: 978-1-80539-121-0
• Seiten: 436
• Serie: Epistemologies of Healing
• Themen: Ratgeber > Gesundheit; Tanzania, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Hiv / Aids: Social Aspects, Medicine: HIV/AIDS, retroviral diseases, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / AIDS & HIV