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

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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Mattes, Dominik,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Epistemologies of Healing ; 18
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Physical Description:1 online resource (436 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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