Viral Frictions Global Health and the Persistence of HIV Stigma in Kenya.

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"Viral Frictions takes the reader along a trail of intersecting narratives to uncover how and why it is that HIV-related stigma persists in the age of treatment. Pfeiffer convincingly argues that stigma is a socially constructed process co-produced at the nexus of local, national, and global re...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2022.
Series:Medical Anthropology Ser.
Subjects:
HIV-positive persons > Kenya > Social conditions.
HIV-positive persons > Kenya > Public opinion.
AIDS (Disease) > Patients > Social aspects > Kenya.
HIV infections > Social aspects > Kenya.
Séropositifs > Kenya > Conditions sociales.
Séropositifs > Kenya > Opinion publique.
Sidéens > Aspect social > Kenya.
Infections à VIH > Aspect social > Kenya.
MEDICAL / General
HIV infections > Social aspects
HIV-positive persons > Social conditions
Kenya
narrative, intersecting, HIV, AIDS, stigma, HIV stigma, treatment, social construct, storytelling, local, national, global, trading center, Kenya, discrimination, social processes, globalization, health, healthcare, epidemic, sub-Saharan Africa, intersectionality, race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, social change, international aid, anthropology, anthropological, Epidemiological, racism, violence, political violence, ethnic conflict, ethnic, conflict, cultural politics, inequalities, economic inequality, mental health, mental healthcare, moral, morality, immunodeficiency virus, vaccine, human immunodeficiency virus, stigmatized, stigmatization.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Series Foreword by Lenore Manderson
  • Preface
  • Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Uneven Anthropological and Epidemiological Stories in Historical HIV Context
  • 2. "The Postelection Violence Has Brought Shame on Us All": HIV and Legacies of Racism, Political Violence, and Ethnic Conflict
  • 3. Stigma and the Cultural Politics of Uncertainty
  • 4. "We Call HIV a Sex Worker Disease": Economic Inequalities, Social Change, and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality
  • 5. (Re)Imagining Stigma at the Intersection of HIV and Mental Health Statuses
  • 6. "What Has Happened to You?" HIV and the (Re)Making of Moral Personhood
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author
  • Series List

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