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AIDS doesn't show its face : inequality, morality, and social change in Nigeria / Daniel Jordan Smith.
LIBRA RA643.86.N6 S558 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Daniel Jordan, 1961- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- AIDS (Disease)--Moral and ethical aspects--Nigeria.
- AIDS (Disease).
- AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--Nigeria.
- Social change.
- AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects.
- AIDS (Disease)--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Nigeria--Social conditions--1960-.
- Nigeria.
- Social conditions.
- Social change--Nigeria--21st century.
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
- Medical Subjects:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
- Nigeria.
- Physical Description:
- 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- "AIDS and Africa are indelibly linked in popular consciousness, but despite widespread awareness of the epidemic, much of the story remains hidden beneath a superficial focus on condoms, sex workers, and antiretrovirals. Africa gets lost in this equation, Daniel Jordan Smith argues, transformed into a mere vehicle to explain AIDS, and in AIDS Doesn't Show Its Face, he offers a powerful reversal, using AIDS as a lens through which to view Africa. Drawing on twenty years of fieldwork in Nigeria, Smith tells a story of dramatic social changes, ones implicated in the same inequalities that also factor into local perceptions about AIDS--inequalities of gender, generation, and social class. Nigerians, he shows, view both social inequality and the presence of AIDS in moral terms, as kinds of ethical failure. Mixing ethnographies that describe everyday life with pointed analyses of public health interventions, he demonstrates just how powerful these paired anxieties--medical and social--are, and how the world might better alleviate them through a more sensitive understanding of their relationship."--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Okada men, money, and the moral hazards of urban inequality
- Gender inequality, sexual morality, and AIDS
- "Come and receive your miracle": Pentecostal Christianity and AIDS
- "Feeding fat on AIDS": NGOs, inequality, and corruption
- Returning home to die: migration and kinship in the era of AIDS
- Living with HIV: the ethical dilemmas of building a normal life.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-197) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226108834
- 9780226108667
- 022610866X
- 022610883X
- OCLC:
- 849822586
- Publisher Number:
- 99967498743
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