Hiv, Gender and the Politics of Medicine

Embodied Democracy in the Global South
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-5292-2191-6
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 581 g

This book centres on women living with HIV in South Africa who have navigated affective relationships, activist networks, government institutions and global coalitions to transform health policies that govern access to HIV medicines. Drawing on 20 years of ethnographic and policy research in South Africa, Brazil and India, it highlights the value of understanding the embodied and political dimensions of health policy and reveals the networked threads that weave women’s precarity into the governance of technologies and the technologies of governance. It illuminates the entwined histories of health policy evolution, systemic inequality and everyday life and calls for a recognition of the embodied ramifications of democratic politics and global health governance.

By integrating medical anthropology with science studies and political theory, this book traces the history of the struggle to access HIV medicines in the Global South and brings it into the present by articulating the lessons learned by activists and policy makers engaged in shaping these vital health policies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mills, Elizabeth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. Concepts, Contexts and Methods

3. Gender, Health and Embodiment

4. New Generation Struggles

5. Health Citizenship

6. Therapeutic Governance

7. Global Health Governance

8. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Mills, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Mills is Senior Lecturer in International Development at the University of Sussex.

Elizabeth Mills is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sussex.