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Politics in the Making of HIV/AIDS in South Africa
Kristo Pienaar
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Hardback. Applying the latest social theory from science and technology studies, this book offers a novel rethinking of the dynamics of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. It demonstrates how political struggles, poverty, and specific policy and health promotion practices have materially shaped the South African HIV epidemic in specific and often very damaging ways. Num Pages: 157 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JFFH2; JHBA; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 342.
The HIV epidemic remains one of the most challenging of modern times, despite the enormous promise of anti-retroviral treatment. This timely book takes a critical look at HIV/AIDS in the context of South Africa, the country with the largest HIV epidemic in the world. Drawing on feminist science and technology studies and a close analysis of a range of textual sources, Politics in the Making of HIV/AIDS in South Africa tracks how the disease has been formed and transformed through political struggles. It illuminates the ways these struggles have also generated new selves for those living with HIV. In conducting ... Read more
The HIV epidemic remains one of the most challenging of modern times, despite the enormous promise of anti-retroviral treatment. This timely book takes a critical look at HIV/AIDS in the context of South Africa, the country with the largest HIV epidemic in the world. Drawing on feminist science and technology studies and a close analysis of a range of textual sources, Politics in the Making of HIV/AIDS in South Africa tracks how the disease has been formed and transformed through political struggles. It illuminates the ways these struggles have also generated new selves for those living with HIV. In conducting ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
157
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137505002
SKU
V9781137505002
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Ref
99-15
About Kristo Pienaar
Kiran Pienaar is a Research Associate at the National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University, Australia. Her research interests include the biopolitics of health and illness, addiction, posthumanist theories, and feminist approaches to materiality.
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