HIV, Gender and the Politics of Medicine : Embodied Democracy in the Global South.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mills, Elizabeth.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Drawing on 20 years of ethnographic and policy research in South Africa, Brazil and India, this book highlights the value of understanding the embodied and political dimensions of health policy and reveals the networked threads that weave women's precarity into the governance of technologies and the technologies of governance.

Contents:

Front Cover

HIV, Gender and the Politics of Medicine: Embodied Democracy in the Global South

Copyright information

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

Background

From the inside out: a personal history

From the outside in: a political history

Shifting landscapes

A shifting biomedical landscape

A shifting political landscape

Book outline

Conclusion

2 Concepts, Contexts and Methods

Concepts

Medicine and the politics of life

The state of the body: embodiment

The body of the state: governance and citizenship

Global assemblages and actor networks

Biopolitical precarity in the permeable body

Contexts

South Africa

Brazil

India

Methods

Research design

Multi-sited ethnographic research

Research methods

Ethnographic research with women in Khayelitsha

Narrative life-history interviews and body maps with the BWG

Narrative life-history interviews

Participant observation with TAC

Key informant interviews with policy actors in Brazil and South Africa

Reflexive analysis

Ethics

3 Gender, Health and Embodiment

"So my baby gets HIV too": vertical pathways of precarity

Lineages of loss

Generations of life

"It's hard to be a girl in this country": horizontal pathways of precarity

It's hard to be a girl in this country

Eschewing shweshwe: navigating risk and pleasure

"I am the household": diagonal pathways of precarity

Negotiating affect and harm

4 New Generation Struggles

"Amandla! Awethu!": the struggle for ARVs and embodied vitality

New generation struggles and embodied precarity

The context of the body: side effects, adherence and viral resistance

"You feel tired!": treatment fatigue and viral resistance.

The body in context: unemployment and economic insecurity

5 Health Citizenship

Sustaining life on ARVs: between rights and responsibility

"I voted for my treatment": health, rights and citizenship

"[The government] is … managing our health": rights and responsibilities in the era of ARVs

Sustaining life beyond ARVs: seeing and speaking to the state

"It was … amazing, the president passing by my house": seeing the state

"Every generation has its struggle": speaking to the state

"My vote must speak for me": having voice

"You need to show a fist": between having voice and being heard

6 Therapeutic Governance

Brazil's rising power and the tide of neoliberal reform

Looking into Brazil: beyond the 'activist state'

The judicialization of the right to health

Looking across Brazil and South Africa: evolving challenges

7 Global Health Governance

IPRs and the global governance of health

The WTO, patents and the governance of medicine

Global health and the problem with patents

Trips flexibilities: mechanisms for ensuring access to essential medicines

The maximalist agenda and mechanisms for restricting access to essential medicines

IPRs and resistance: BRICS and the case of Brazil, India and South Africa

Towards the sustainable governance of medicines: civil society organizations and global health agencies

8 Conclusion

The right to a nonprojected future

Between hope and dystopia: findings and contributions

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 7

References

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781529221992

1529221994

9781529221961

152922196X