| Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities: Grounding Global HIV Treatment in Tanzania Contributor(s): Mattes, Dominik (Author) |
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ISBN: 178920321X ISBN-13: 9781789203219 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $137.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Health & Fitness | Diseases - Aids & Hiv - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Medical | Public Health |
| Dewey: 362.196 |
| LCCN: 2019014380 |
| Series: Epistemologies of Healing |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6" W x 9" (1.66 lbs) 436 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - AIDS - Topical - Health & Fitness |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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". |
Contributor Bio(s): Mattes, Dominik: - Dominik Mattes is a postdoctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center "Affective Societies" and the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. His research interests include medical anthropology, critical global health, anthropology of religion, as well as anthropology of affect and emotion. |