Viral Frictions : Global Health and the Persistence of HIV Stigma in Kenya.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J.
Imprint:	New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2022.
Description:	1 online resource (247 p.).
Language:	English
Series:	Medical Anthropology Ser. Medical Anthropology Ser.
Subject:	HIV-positive persons -- Kenya -- Social conditions. HIV-positive persons -- Kenya -- Public opinion. AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Social aspects -- Kenya. HIV infections -- Social aspects -- Kenya. HIV infections -- Social aspects. HIV-positive persons -- Social conditions. Kenya.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13587135

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ISBN:	9781978822368 1978822367 9781978822320 1978822324 9781978822337 1978822332
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-207) and index.
Summary:	"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 relationships and storytelling about and practices associated with HIV. Based on a decade of fieldwork in one highway trading center in Kenya, Viral Frictions offers compelling stories of stigma and discrimination as a lens for understanding broader social processes, the complexities of globalization and health, and their profound impact on the everyday social lives and relationships of people living through the ongoing HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. This highly engaging book is ideal reading for those interested in teaching and learning about intersectionality, as Pfeiffer meticulously demonstrates how HIV stigma interacts with issues of treatment, race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, social change, and international aid systems"--
Other form:	Print version: Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J. Viral Frictions New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press,c2022 9781978822337

Table of Contents:

Cover
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Series Foreword by Lenore Manderson
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
Series List

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