When bodies remember : experiences and politics of AIDS in South Africa /
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Author / Creator: | Fassin, Didier. |
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Uniform title: | Quand les corps se souviennent. English |
Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 365 pages) : maps |
Language: | English |
Series: | California series in public anthropology ; 15 California series in public anthropology ; 15. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11152224 |
Summary: | In this book, France's leading medical anthropologist takes on one of the most tragic stories of the global AIDS crisis--the failure of the ANC government to stem the tide of the AIDS epidemic in South Africa. Didier Fassin traces the deep roots of the AIDS crisis to apartheid and, before that, to the colonial period.<br> <br> <br> <br> One person in ten is infected with HIV in South Africa, and President Thabo Mbeki has initiated a global controversy by funding questionable medical research, casting doubt on the benefits of preventing mother-to-child transmission, and embracing dissidents who challenge the viral theory of AIDS. Fassin contextualizes Mbeki's position by sensitively exploring issues of race and genocide that surround this controversy. Basing his discussion on vivid ethnographical data collected in the townships of Johannesburg, he passionately demonstrates that the unprecedented epidemiological crisis in South Africa is a demographic catastrophe as well as a human tragedy, one that cannot be understood without reference to the social history of the country, in particular to institutionalized racial inequality as the fundamental principle of government during the past century. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 365 pages) : maps |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-351) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780520940451 0520940458 9781429467957 1429467959 1281752541 9781281752543 9780520244672 0520244672 9780520250277 0520250273 0520904044 9780520904040 9786611752545 6611752544 |