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Infected Kin : Orphan Care and AIDS in Lesotho / Ellen Block, Will McGrath.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Block, Ellen, Author.
- McGrath, Will, Author.
- Series:
- Medical anthropology (New Brunswick, N.J.)
- Medical Anthropology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- AIDS (Disease)--Lesotho.
- AIDS (Disease).
- AIDS (Disease) in children--Lesotho.
- AIDS (Disease) in children.
- Orphans--Care--Lesotho.
- Orphans.
- Families--Lesotho.
- Families.
- Kinship--Lesotho.
- Kinship.
- Medical anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxi, 224 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- AIDS has devastated communities across southern Africa. In Lesotho, where a quarter of adults are infected, the wide-ranging implications of the disease have been felt in every family, disrupting key aspects of social life. In Infected Kin, Ellen Block and Will McGrath argue that AIDS is fundamentally a kinship disease, examining the ways it transcends infected individuals and seeps into kin relations and networks of care. While much AIDS scholarship has turned away from the difficult daily realities of those affected by the disease, Infected Kin uses both ethnographic scholarship and creative nonfiction to bring to life the joys and struggles of the Basotho people at the heart of the AIDS pandemic. The result is a book accessible to wide readership, yet built upon scholarship and theoretical contributions that ensure Infected Kin will remain relevant to anyone interested in anthropology, kinship, global health, and care.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- FOREWORD / Manderson, Lenore
- PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. KINSHIP FIRST
- 2. MEDICAL PLURALISM IN A LOW-RESOURCE SETTING
- 3. "LIKE ANY OTHER DISEASE"
- 4. ORPHAN CARE AND THE FAMILY
- CONCLUSION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- GLOSSARY OF SESOTHO TERMS
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)
- ISBN:
- 1-9788-0478-4
- OCLC:
- 1114969603
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