HIV exceptionalism : development through disease in Sierra Leone / Adia Benton.

  • Benton, Adia, 1977-
Date:
[2015]
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]

Physical description

xii, 176 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes

"A quadrant book."
"Sponsored by Quadrant's Health and Society group (advisory board: Susan Craddock, Jennifer Gunn, Alex Rothman, and Karen-Sue Taussig), and by the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota."
"A different version of chapter 2 was previously published as "Exceptional Suffering?: Enumeration and Vernacular Accounting in the HIV-Positive Experience," Medical Anthropology 31, no. 4 (July 2012): 310-328; Medical Anthropology is available online at http://www.informaworld.com."

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-171) and index.

Contents

Introduction: HIV exceptionalism in Sierra Leone: Christiana's story -- I. The Exceptional Life of HIV in Sierra Leone: 1. The HIV industry in postwar Sierra Leone; 2. Exceptional life, exceptional suffering: enumerating HIV's truths -- II. Becoming HIV-Positive: 3. The imperative to talk: disclosure and its preoccupations; 4. Positive living: hierarchies of visibility, vulnerability, and self-reliance -- III. HIV and Governance: 5. For love of country: model citizens, good governance, and the nationalization of HIV -- Conclusion: the future of HIV exceptionalism.

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    History of Medicine
    FEJ.U.147
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780816692422
  • 0816692424
  • 9780816692439
  • 0816692432