Second Chances

Surviving AIDS in Uganda
Herausgeber: Whyte, Susan Reynolds

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

During the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life. The essays in Second Chances draw on personal accounts and a broad knowledge of Ugandan culture and history to explore antiretroviral therapy from the perspective of those people.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 173mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780822357957
• ISBN-10: 082235795X
• Artikelnr.: 40700994

Autorenporträt

Susan Reynolds Whyte is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. She is the author of Questioning Misfortune: The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda, coauthor of Social Lives of Medicines, and coeditor of Disability in Local and Global Worlds.

Inhaltsangabe

Polygraphy vii
Introduction. The First Generation 1
Case I. Robinah and Joyce: The Connecting Sisters 25
1. Connections 34
Case II. Saddam: Treatment Programs 47
2. Clientship 56
Case III. Suzan: The Necessity of Travel 71
3. Mobility 80
Case IV. MamaGirl & MamaBoy: Family Matters 95
4. Families 104
Case V. Alice: Keeping a Good Man 119
5. Partners 128
Case VI. Jackie: Children without Grandparents 143
6. Children 152
Case VII. John: Working Contingencies 167
7. Work 176
Case VIII. Hassan: Soft Food and Town Life 191
8. Food 200
Case IX. Jolly: Appearances and Numbers 215
9. Bodies 223
Case X. Rachel: Buckets of Medicine 237
10. Medicine 245
Case XI. Dominic: A Multitude of Adversities 259
11. Life 268
Acknowledgments 285
Bibliography 287
Contributors 299
Index 301