The Republic of Therapy: Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa's Time of AIDS
ISBN: 9780822348740 | 0822348748
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. Date: 10/1/2010
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The Republic of Therapytells the story of the global response to the HIV epidemic from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa. Drawing on his experiences as a physician and anthropologist in Burkina Faso and Cocirc;te drs"Ivoire, Vinh-Kim Nguyen focuses on the period between 1994, when effective antiretroviral treatments for HIV were discovered, and 2000, when the global health community acknowledged a right to treatment, making the drugs more available. During the intervening years, when a... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction Côte-d'Ivoire and Triage in the Time of AIDS | p. 1 |
| Testimonials That Bind: Organizing Communities with HIV | p. 15 |
| Confessional Technologies: Conjuring the Self | p. 35 |
| Soldiers of God: Together and Apart | p. 61 |
| Life Itself: Triage and Therapeutic Citizenship | p. 89 |
| Biopower: Fevers, Tribes, and Bulldozers | p. 111 |
| The Crisis: Econo... MORE | p. 137 |
| Uses and Pleasures: The Republic Inside Out | p. 157 |
| Conclusion Who Lives? Who Dies? | p. 175 |
| Notes | p. 189 |
| References | p. 205 |
| Index | p. 229 |
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Vinh-Kim Nguyen is a practicing HIV and emergency physician in Montral, an associate professor in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the Universit de Montral, and the author, with Margaret Lock, of An Anthropology of Biomedicine.
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