All I eat is medicine : going hungry in Mozambique's AIDS economy / Ippolytos Kalofonos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kalofonos, Ippolytos, author.

Series:

California series in public anthropology ; Volume 52.

California Series in Public Anthropology ; Volume 52

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--Mozambique--21st century.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS (Disease)--Economic aspects--Mozambique--21st century.

AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Mozambique--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 pages).

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]

Summary:

All I Eat Is Medicine charts the lives of individuals and the operation of institutions in the thick of the AIDS epidemic in Mozambique during the global scale-up of treatment for HIV/AIDS at the turn of the twenty-first century. Even as the AIDS treatment scale-up saved lives, it perpetuated the exploitation and exclusion that was implicated in the propagation of the epidemic in the first place. This book calls attention to the global social commitments and responsibilities that a truly therapeutic global health requires.

Contents:

Cover

All I Eat Is Medicine

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

Maps

Introduction: A Doença do Século (The Disease of the Century)

1. Estamos Juntos? The Politics of Health and Survival in Mozambique

2. The Emergence of the AIDS Economy

3. Therapeutic Congregations: Associations of People Living with HIV/AIDS

4. "We Can't Find This Spirit of Help": The Uses of Community Labor

5. Being Seen in the Day Hospital

6. Hunger as Embodied Critique

Acknowledgments

Glossary

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520964075

0520964071

OCLC:

1240265090