Book ID: CBB593288041

Politics in the Making of HIV/AIDS in South Africa (2016)

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Pienaar, Kinar (Author)


Palgrave Macmillan


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 165
Language: English

The HIV epidemic remains one of the most challenging of modern times, despite the enormous promise of anti-retroviral treatment. This timely book takes a critical look at HIV/AIDS in the context of South Africa, the country with the largest HIV epidemic in the world. Drawing on feminist science and technology studies and a close analysis of a range of textual sources, Politics in the Making of HIV/AIDS in South Africa tracks how the disease has been formed and transformed through political struggles. It illuminates the ways these struggles have also generated new selves for those living with HIV. In conducting this enquiry, the book addresses pressing questions about the politics of public health, the ethics of biological citizenship, and agency and the making of neoliberal subjects. It should appeal to scholars and students with interests in the sociology of health and medicine, the body in society, science and technology studies, and public health.

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Review Martin Weinel (2017) Review of "Politics in the Making of HIV/AIDS in South Africa". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 165-168). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Aliete Cunha-Oliveira
Padamsee, Tasleem J.
Whiteside, Alan
Smallman, Shawn C.
Royles, Dan
Maes, Kenneth
Concepts
Public health
Human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV)
AIDS (disease); HIV / AIDS
Medicine and politics
Epidemics
Disease and diseases
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
Places
United States
South Africa
Ethiopia
Africa
United Kingdom
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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