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...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2019.
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Series: | Epistemologies of healing ;
v. 18. |
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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.