Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities : : Grounding Global HIV Treatment in Tanzania / / Dominik Mattes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Mattes, Dominik,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Epistemologies of Healing ; 18
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (436 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Notes on Transliteration --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; 1. Exploring ART in Tanga --; 2. Antiretroviral Treatment as a Global Mobile Force --; 3. Translating Global Technology into Local Health Care Practice --; 4. Generating Treatment Adherence: Neoliberal Patient Subjectivities, Biomedical Truth Claims, and Institutional Micropolitics --; 5. Diverging Trajectories of Reconstitution: Living with ARVs and the Pursuit of “Normalcy” --; 6. Cohesion and Conflict: Living a Social Life on ARVs within Kin-Based Networks of Solidarity --; 7. HIV (Self-)Support Groups: Competition, Bureaucracy, and the Limitations of Biosociality --; 8. The Blood of Jesus, Witchcraft, and CD4 Counts: HIV/AIDS and ART in the Context of Traditional and Religious Healing --; Conclusion --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789203226; 9783110997729
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789203226?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Dominik Mattes.

Set in Tanga, a city on the Tanzanian Swahili coast, Dominik Mattes examines the implementation of antiretroviral HIV-treatment (ART) in the area, exploring the manifold infrastructural and social fragilities of treatment provision in public HIV clinics as well as patients’ multi-layered struggles of coming to terms with ART in their everyday lives. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, the book shows that, notwithstanding the massive rollout of ART, providing treatment and living a life with HIV in settings like Tanga continue to entail social, economic, and moral challenges and long-term uncertainties, which contradict the global rhetoric of the “normalization of HIV”.