Morality, Hope and Grief
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Focuses on the micro-politics of illness, treatment and death in order to offer innovative insights into the complex processes that shape individual and community responses to AIDS Describes the dilemmas that families, communities and health professionals face and shed new light on the transformation of social and moral orders in African societies Shows how AIDS diagnosis institutionalized new forms of social stigma among couples, households, and children

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Focuses on the micro-politics of illness, treatment and death in order to offer innovative insights into the complex processes that shape individual and community responses to AIDS Describes the dilemmas that families, communities and health professionals face and shed new light on the transformation of social and moral orders in African societies Shows how AIDS diagnosis institutionalized new forms of social stigma among couples, households, and children
Autorenporträt
Hansjörg Dilger is Junior Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin. Between 1995 and 2003, he carried out long-term fieldwork on AIDS and social relationships in rural and urban Tanzania. He is the author of Living with Aids. Illness, Death and Social Relationships in Africa. An Ethnography (Campus, 2005 in German). His recent research has focused on histories of social and religious inequality and the growing presence of Christian and Muslim schools in Dar es Salaam.