Infected Kin : : Orphan Care and AIDS in Lesotho / / Ellen Block, Will McGrath.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Block, Ellen,; McGrath, Will,
• MitwirkendeR: Manderson, Lenore,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Medical Anthropology
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (246 p.) :; 13 color images, 1 table

AIDS has devastated communities across southern Africa. In Lesotho, where a quarter of adults are infected, the wide-ranging implications of the disease have been felt in every family, disrupting key aspects of social life. In Infected Kin, Ellen Block and Will McGrath argue that AIDS is fundamentally a kinship disease, examining the ways it transcends infected individuals and seeps into kin relations and networks of care. While much AIDS scholarship has turned away from the difficult daily realities of those affected by the disease, Infected Kin uses both ethnographic scholarship and creative nonfiction to bring to life the joys and struggles of the Basotho people at the heart of the AIDS pandemic. The result is a book accessible to wide readership, yet built upon scholarship and theoretical contributions that ensure Infected Kin will remain relevant to anyone interested in anthropology, kinship, global health, and care. Supplementary teaching materials are available at: https://www.csbsju.edu/sociology/anthropology-teaching-resources/useful-resources/infected-kin-teaching-resources

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. KINSHIP FIRST -- 2. MEDICAL PLURALISM IN A LOW-RESOURCE SETTING -- 3. "LIKE ANY OTHER DISEASE" -- 4. ORPHAN CARE AND THE FAMILY -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- GLOSSARY OF SESOTHO TERMS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Index