Vinh-Kim Nguyen

The Republic of Therapy

Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa's Time of AIDS

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ethnography that examines the global civil rights movement demanding access to HIV treatments as it has developed in West Africa.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 164mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780822348627
• ISBN-10: 0822348624
• Artikelnr.: 30365414

Autorenporträt

Vinh-Kim Nguyen is Associate Professor of Social and Preventive Medicine in the School of Public Health at the University of Montreal.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Côte-d'Ivoire and Triage in the Time of AIDS 1
1. Testimonials That Bind: Organizing Communities with HIV 15
2. Confessional Technologies: Conjuring the Self 35
3. Soldiers of God: Together and Apart 61
4. Life Itself: Triage and Therapeutic Citizenship 89
5. Biopower: Fevers, Tribes, and Bulldozers 111
6. The Crisis: Economies, Warriors, and the Erosion of Sovereignty 137
7. Uses and Pleasures: The Republic Inside Out 157
Conclusion: Who Lives? Who Dies? 175
Notes 189
References 205
Index 229