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Author Kalofonos, Ippolytos, author.

Title All I eat is medicine : going hungry in Mozambique's AIDS economy / Ippolytos Kalofonos
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
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Series California series in public anthropology ; 52
California series in public anthropology ; 52.
Contents Estamos juntos? : the politics of health and survival in Mozambique -- The emergence of the AIDS economy -- Therapeutic congregations : associations of people living with HIV/AIDS -- "We can't find this spirit of help" : the uses of community labor -- Being seen in the day hospital -- Hunger as embodied critique
Summary All I Eat Is Medicine charts the lives of individuals and institutions in the thick of the Mozambican AIDS epidemic during the global scale-up of treatment for HIV/AIDS in Mozambique at the turn of the twenty-first century. Even as the AIDS treatment scale-up saved lives, it perpetuated the exploitation and exclusion that was implicated in the propagation of the epidemic in the first place. This book calls attention to the global social commitments and responsibilities that a truly therapeutic global health requires Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed September 10, 2021)
Subject AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- Mozambique -- 21st century
AIDS (Disease) -- Economic aspects -- Mozambique -- 21st century
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Mozambique -- 21st century
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
AIDS (Disease) -- Economic aspects
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients
AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects
Mozambique
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021006468
ISBN 0520964071
9780520964075