When bodies remember : experiences and politics of AIDS in South Africa
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When bodies remember : experiences and politics of AIDS in South Africa
（California series in public anthropology, 15）
University of California Press, c2007
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Quand les corps se souviennent
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-351) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this book, France's leading medical anthropologist takes on one of the most tragic stories of the global AIDS crisis - the failure of the ANC government to stem the tide of the AIDS epidemic in South Africa. Didier Fassin traces the deep roots of the AIDS crisis to apartheid and, before that, to the colonial period. One person in ten is infected with HIV in South Africa, and President Thabo Mbeki has initiated a global controversy by funding questionable medical research, casting doubt on the benefits of preventing mother-to-child transmission, and embracing dissidents who challenge the viral theory of AIDS. Fassin contextualizes Mbeki's position by sensitively exploring issues of race and genocide that surround this controversy. Basing his discussion on vivid ethnographical data collected in the townships of Johannesburg, he passionately demonstrates that the unprecedented epidemiological crisis in South Africa is a demographic catastrophe as well as a human tragedy, one that cannot be understood without reference to the social history of the country, in particular to institutionalized racial inequality as the fundamental principle of government during the past century.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Political Anesthesia and Anthropological Concern 1. As If Nothing Ever Happened The Controversy A Life Proposition 1: The Structures of Time 2. An Epidemic of Disputes Beginnings Heresy Proposition 2: The Configuration of the Polemics 3. Anatomy of the Controversies Ordeals Arenas Proposition 3: The Figures of Denial 4. The Imprint of the Past Long Memory Bared History Proposition 4: The History of the Vanquished 5. The Embodiment of the World Behind the Landscapes Within the Narratives Proposition 5: The Forms of Experience 6. Living with Death Dying Born Again Proposition 6: Politics of Life Conclusion: This World We Live In Notes Brief Chronology of South African History Maps Bibliography Index
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