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 strugg...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mattes, Dominik, 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.
Series:Epistemologies of healing ; v. 18.
Subjects:
HIV-positive persons > Tanzania > Social conditions.
AIDS (Disease) > Treatment > Tanzania.
AIDS (Disease) > Alternative treatment > Tanzania.
Antiretroviral agents > Social aspects > Tanzania.
HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / AIDS & HIV.
AIDS (Disease) > Alternative treatment.
AIDS (Disease) > Treatment.
HIV-positive persons > Social conditions.
Tanzania.
academic text.
africa.
aids epidemic.
anthropology.
antiretroviral therapy.
antiretroviral treatment.
developmental studies.
diseases.
ethnographic fieldwork.
ethnography.
hiv treatment.
living on arvs.
living with hiv.
long term cure.
normalization of hiv.
public health.
social fragilities.
tanzania.
world health organization.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Exploring ART in Tanga
  • Antiretroviral treatment as a global mobile force
  • Translating global technology into local health care practice
  • Generating treatment adherence: neoliberal patient subjectivities, biomedical truth claims, and institutional micropolitics
  • Diverging trajectories of reconstitution: living with ARVs and the pursuit of 'normalcy'
  • Cohesion and conflict: living a social live on ARVs within kin-based networks of solidarity
  • HIV (self- )support groups: competition, bureaucracy, and the limitations of biosociality
  • The blood of Jesus, witchcraft, and CD4 counts: HIV/AIDS and ART in the Context of traditional and religious healing.

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