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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.
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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.