Ancestors and antiretrovirals : the biopolitics of HIV/AIDS in post-apartheid South Africa / Claire Laurier Decoteau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Decoteau, Claire Laurier.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--South Africa.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects--South Africa.

HIV-positive persons--South Africa.

HIV-positive persons.

Health services accessibility--South Africa.

Health services accessibility.

South Africans--Medicine.

South Africans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the years since the end of apartheid, South Africans have enjoyed a progressive constitution, considerable access to social services for the poor and sick, and a booming economy that has made their nation into one of the wealthiest on the continent. At the same time, South Africa experiences extremely unequal income distribution, and its citizens suffer the highest prevalence of HIV in the world. As Archbishop Desmond Tutu has noted, "AIDS is South Africa's new apartheid." In Ancestors and Antiretrovirals, Claire Laurier Decoteau backs up Tutu's assertion with powerful arguments about how this came to pass. Decoteau traces the historical shifts in health policy after apartheid and describes their effects, detailing, in particular, the changing relationship between biomedical and indigenous health care, both at the national and the local level. Decoteau tells this story from the perspective of those living with and dying from AIDS in Johannesburg's squatter camps. At the same time, she exposes the complex and often contradictory ways that the South African government has failed to balance the demands of neoliberal capital with the considerable health needs of its population.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Terminology

Abbreviations

Introduction. Postcolonial Paradox

ONE. The Struggle for Life in South Africa's Slums

TWO. A State in Denial

THREE. Biomedical Citizenship

FOUR. The Politicization of Sexuality

FIVE. Hybridity

CODA. Life Strategies

Notes

Glossary

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226064451

022606445X

9780226064628

022606462X

OCLC:

855504087