| Description |
x, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Epistemologies of healing ; v. 7 |
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Epistemologies of healing ; v. 7
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: 9.Gossip, Rumour and Scandal: The Circulation of AIDS Narratives in a Climate of Silence and Secrecy / Graeme Reid -- III.Experiences of Grief, Death and Pain -- 10.̀We are Tired of Mourning!' The Economy of Death and Bereavement in a Time of AIDS / Liv Haram -- 11.Purity is Danger: Ambiguities of Touch around Sickness and Death in Western Kenya / Ruth J. Prince -- 12.Diseased and Dangerous: Images of Widows' Bodies in the Context of the HIV Epidemic in Northern Zambia / Johanna A. Offe -- 13.Orphans' Ties---Belonging and Relatedness in Child-Headed Households in Malawi / Angelika Wolf -- 14.The Widow in Blue: Blood and the Morality of Remembering in Botswana's Time of AIDS / Frederick Klaits |
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Machine generated contents note: I.Giving Hope? Networks of Healing, Treatment and Care -- 1.Beyond Bare Life: AIDS, (Bio) Politics, and the Neoliberal Order / Jean Comaroff -- 2.Spiritual Insecurity and AIDS in South Africa / Adam Ashforth -- 3.New Hopes and New Dilemmas: Disclosure and Recognition in the Time of Antiretroviral Treatment / Hanne O. Mogensen -- 4.Health Workers Entangled: Confidentiality and Certification / David Kyaddondo -- 5.̀My Relatives are Running Away from Me!' Kinship and Care in the Wake of Structural Adjustment, Privatisation and HIV/AIDS in Tanzania / Hansjorg Dilger -- II.Moralities at Stake -- 6.The Social History of an Epidemic: HIV/AIDS in Gwembe Valley, Zambia, 1982-2004 / Elizabeth Colson -- 7.Living beyond AIDS in Maasailand: Discourses of Contagion and Cultural Identity / Aud Talle -- 8.Politics of Blame: Clashing Moralities and the AIDS Epidemic in Nso' (North-West Province, Cameroon) / Ivo Quaranta -- |
| Summary |
The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Sahaian Africa has been addressed and perceived predominantly through the broad perspectives of social and economic theories as well as public health and development discourses. This volume however, focuses on the micro-politics of illness, treatment and death in order to offer innovative insights into the complex processes that shape individual and community responses to AIDS. The contributions describe the dilemmas that families, communities and health professionals face and shed new light on the transformation of social and moral orders in African societies, which have been increasingly marginalised in the context of global modernity. --Book Jacket |
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This series in medical anthropology publishes monographs and edited volumes on indigenous (so-called traditional) medical knowledge and practice, alternative and complementary medicine, and ethnobiological studies that relate to health and illness. The emphasis of the series is on the way indigenous epistemologies inform healing, against a background of comparison with other practices, and in recognition of the fluidity between them. -- |
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Ìn this outstanding collection...we see vividly how the potential death warrant that AIDS presents to couples, households, children, has institutionalized new forms of social stigma and, at the same time, new levels of collective resilience and courage.'---Caroline Bledsoe, Northeastern University -- |
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[̀S]ome of the best, most thoughtful scholarship on AIDS in Africa.'---Julie Livingston, Rutgers University -- |
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[̀T]hese chapters... tell us about how ordinary people have re-created their social and cultural worlds under the threat of a new disease, and also in the face of extremely challenging economic conditions...an extremely valuable book.'---Steven Feierman, University of Pennsylvania -- |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- Africa.
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Medical anthropology -- Africa.
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| Author |
Dilger, Hansjörg.
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Luig, Ute.
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| LC no. |
2010006676 |
| ISBN |
1845456637 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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9781845456634 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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