Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities

Grounding Global HIV Treatment in Tanzania
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-321-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 436 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 781 g

Reihe: Epistemologies of Healing

Set in Tanga, a city on the Tanzanian Swahili coast, Dominik Mattes examines the implementation of antiretroviral HIV-treatment (ART) in the area, exploring the manifold infrastructural and social fragilities of treatment provision in public HIV clinics as well as patients’ multi-layered struggles of coming to terms with ART in their everyday lives. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, the book shows that, notwithstanding the massive rollout of ART, providing treatment and living a life with HIV in settings like Tanga continue to entail social, economic, and moral challenges and long-term uncertainties, which contradict the global rhetoric of the “normalization of HIV”.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mattes, Dominik

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnomedizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Exploring ART in Tanga

Chapter 2. Antiretroviral Treatment as a Global Mobile Force

Chapter 3. Translating Global Technology into Local Health Care Practice

Chapter 4. Generating Treatment Adherence: Neoliberal Patient Subjectivities, Biomedical Truth Claims, and Institutional Micropolitics

Chapter 5. Diverging Trajectories of Reconstitution: Living with ARVs and the Pursuit of ‘Normalcy’

Chapter 6. Cohesion and Conflict: Living a Social Live on ARVs within Kin-Based Networks of Solidarity

Chapter 7. HIV (Self-)Support Groups: Competition, Bureaucracy, and the Limitations of Biosociality

Chapter 8. The Blood of Jesus, Witchcraft, and CD4 Counts: HIV/AIDS and ART in the Context of Traditional and Religious Healing

Conclusion

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mattes, Dominik
Dominik Mattes is a postdoctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center “Affective Societies” and the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. His research interests include medical anthropology, critical global health, anthropology of religion, as well as anthropology of affect and emotion.