Viral Frictions : : Global Health and the Persistence of HIV Stigma in Kenya / / Elizabeth J. Pfeiffer.

Viral Frictions takes the reader along a trail of intersecting narratives to uncover how and why it is that HIV-related stigma persists in the age of treatment. Pfeiffer convincingly argues that stigma is a socially constructed process co-produced at the nexus of local, national, and global relation...

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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Medical Anthropology
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Physical Description:1 online resource (270 p.) :; 2 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • SERIES FOREWORD
  • 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
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR