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The republic of therapy : triage and sovereignty in West Africa's time of AIDS / Vinh-Kim Nguyen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nguyen, Vinh-Kim.
- Series:
- Body, commodity, text.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Body, commodity, text
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- AIDS (Disease)--Africa, West.
- AIDS (Disease).
- HIV infections--Africa, West.
- HIV infections.
- Medical anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The story of the global response to the HIV epidemic, told from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa between 1994 and 2000.
- Contents:
- Testimonials that bind : organizing communities with HIV
- Confessional technologies : conjuring the self
- Soldiers of God : together and apart
- Life itself : triage and therapeutic citizenship
- Biopower : fevers, tribes, and bulldozers
- The crisis : economies, warriors, and the erosion of sovereignty
- Uses and pleasures : the republic inside out.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613065759
- 9781283065757
- 1283065754
- 9780822393504
- 0822393506
- OCLC:
- 678870062
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