Dominik Mattes

Gebundenes Buch

Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities

Grounding Global HIV Treatment in Tanzania

Beschreibung

Comprehensive ethnographic case studies of people living with HIV and ARVs. In-depth observations of the infrastructural conditions and social dynamics shaping day-to-day work routines at Tanzanian HIV treatment centers. Focus on the financial and infrastructural fragilities of treatment provision at the global and national level (Tanzania). In-depth exploration of the often-disregarded interference of religious and ‘traditional’ healing practices with biomedical HIV-treatment.

Autor

Dominik Mattes is a postdoctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center "Affective Societies" and the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. His research interests include medical anthropology, critical global health, anthropology of religion, as well as anthropology of affect and emotion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 438
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 781g
• ISBN-13: 9781789203219
• ISBN-10: 178920321X
• Artikelnr.: 55156800