Elizabeth J Pfeiffer

Viral Frictions

Global Health and the Persistence of HIV Stigma in Kenya

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Produktbeschreibung

Viral Frictions explores how and why HIV-related stigma persists in the age of treatment. Based on a decade of fieldwork in a highway trading center in Kenya, Pfeiffer offers compelling stories of stigma as a lens for understanding broader social processes, the complexities of globalization and health, intersectionality, and their profound impact on the everyday social lives and relationships of people living through the ongoing HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781978822337
• ISBN-10: 1978822332
• Artikelnr.: 62920683

Autorenporträt

ELIZABETH J. PFEIFFER is an assistant professor of anthropology at Rhode Island College in Providence. Her work has been published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals, including Culture, Health & Sexuality, Global Public Health, African Studies Review, Medicine Anthropology Theory, and Sexually Transmitted Diseases.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword by Lenore Manderson 
Preface
Acronyms and Abbreviations 
Introduction 
1 Uneven Anthropological and Epidemiological Stories in Historical HIV
Context
2 "The Postelection Violence Has Brought Shame on Us All": HIV and Legacies
of Racism, Political Violence, and Ethnic Conflict 
3 Stigma and the Cultural Politics of Uncertainty 
4 "We Call HIV a Sex Worker Disease": Economic Inequalities, Social Change,
and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality 
5 (Re)Imagining Stigma at the Intersection of HIV and Mental Health
Statuses
6 "What Has Happened to You?" HIV and the (Re)Making of Moral Personhood 
Conclusion 
Acknowledgments
Notes 
References 
Index