Theodore Powers

Sustaining Life

AIDS Activism in South Africa

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through participant observation and in-depth interviews, Sustaining Life explores how the South African AIDS movement transformed public health institutions, changed policy norms, and enabled near-universal access to treatment to sustain the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780812252002
• ISBN-10: 0812252004
• Artikelnr.: 58620110

Autorenporträt

Theodore Powers teaches in the Department of Anthropology and Global Heath Studies Program at the University of Iowa.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction. People, Pathogens, and Power: Situating the South African
HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Chapter 1. Contact, Colonization, and Apartheid: South African Social
Formations in Historical Perspective
Chapter 2. The Political History of South African HIV/AIDS Activism
Chapter 3. Occupying the State: HIV/AIDS Activism and the South African
National AIDS Council
Chapter 4. A Policy Redirected: Transnational Donor Capital and Treatment
Access in the Western Cape Province
Chapter 5. Community Health Activism, AIDS Dissidence, and Local HIV/AIDS
Politics in Khayelitsha
Chapter 6. People in the State: Activism, Access, and Transformation
Afterword. After Treatment Access: An Epidemic Unresolved
Notes
References
Index