Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities. Dominik Mattes
Культурология. Epistemologies of Healing
Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities
Год выпуска 0
isbn 9781789203226
Автор произведения Dominik Mattes
Жанр Культурология
Серия Epistemologies of Healing
Издательство Ingram
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”.