AIDS has devastated communities across southern Africa. In Lesotho, the wide-ranging implications of the disease have been felt in every family, disrupting key aspects of social life. Ellen Block and Will McGrath argue that AIDS is fundamentally a kinship disease, and examine the ways it seeps into kin relations and networks of care.
AIDS has devastated communities across southern Africa. In Lesotho, the wide-ranging implications of the disease have been felt in every family, disrupting key aspects of social life. Ellen Block and Will McGrath argue that AIDS is fundamentally a kinship disease, and examine the ways it seeps into kin relations and networks of care.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Ellen Block is an assistant professor of anthropology in the department of sociology at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota. Will McGrath is an award-winning writer and journalist. He has written for The Atlantic, Pacific Standard, Foreign Affairs, the Christian Science Monitor, and Gastronomica. He is also the author of Everything Lost Is Found Again.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Glossary List of Figures and Tables Map Preface: On Collaboration and Suffering Introduction: AIDS is a Kinship Disease Chapter 1: Kinship First Chapter 2: Medical Pluralism in a Low Resource Setting Chapter 3: "Like Any Other Disease" Chapter 4: Orphan Care and the Family Conclusion: Infected Kin Endnotes Acknowledgments References Index
TABLE OF CONTENTS Glossary List of Figures and Tables Map Preface: On Collaboration and Suffering Introduction: AIDS is a Kinship Disease Chapter 1: Kinship First Chapter 2: Medical Pluralism in a Low Resource Setting Chapter 3: "Like Any Other Disease" Chapter 4: Orphan Care and the Family Conclusion: Infected Kin Endnotes Acknowledgments References Index
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