The Republic of Therapy - Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa's Time of Aids

Informationen zum Autor Vinh-Kim Nguyen is Associate Professor of Social and Preventive Medicine in the School of Public Health at the University of Montreal. Klappentext Ethnography that examines the global civil rights movement demanding access to HIV treatments as it has developed in West Africa. Zusammenfassung The story of the global response to the HIV epidemic! told from the perspective of community organizers! activists! and people living with HIV in West Africa between 1994 and 2000. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Côte-d'Ivoire and Triage in the Time of AIDS 1 1. Testimonials That Bind: Organizing Communities with HIV 15 2. Confessional Technologies: Conjuring the Self 35 3. Soldiers of God: Together and Apart 61 4. Life Itself: Triage and Therapeutic Citizenship 89 5. Biopower: Fevers, Tribes, and Bulldozers 111 6. The Crisis: Economies, Warriors, and the Erosion of Sovereignty 137 7. Uses and Pleasures: The Republic Inside Out 157 Conclusion: Who Lives? Who Dies? 175 Notes 189 References 205 Index 229

Product details

• Authors: Nguyen, Vinh-Kim Nguyen
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2010
• EAN: 9780822348740
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4874-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Body, Commodity, Text; Body, Commodity, Text; Body, Commodity, Text: Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology