Comprehensive ethnographic case studies of people living with HIV and ARVs. In-depth observations of the infrastructural conditions and social dynamics shaping day-to-day work routines at Tanzanian HIV treatment centers. Focus on the financial and infrastructural fragilities of treatment provision at the global and national level (Tanzania). In-depth exploration of the often-disregarded interference of religious and 'traditional' healing practices with biomedical HIV-treatment.
Comprehensive ethnographic case studies of people living with HIV and ARVs. In-depth observations of the infrastructural conditions and social dynamics shaping day-to-day work routines at Tanzanian HIV treatment centers. Focus on the financial and infrastructural fragilities of treatment provision at the global and national level (Tanzania). In-depth exploration of the often-disregarded interference of religious and 'traditional' healing practices with biomedical HIV-treatment.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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