The republic of therapy : triage and sovereignty in West Africa's time of AIDS / Vinh-Kim Nguyen.

Ethnography that examines the global civil rights movement demanding access to HIV treatments as it has developed in West Africa.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Duke)
Main Author: Nguyen, Vinh-Kim (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010.
Series:Body, commodity, text.
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Table of Contents:
  • Testimonials that bind : organizing communities with HIV
  • Confessional technologies : conjuring the self
  • Soldiers of God : together and apart
  • Life itself : triage and therapeutic citizenship
  • Biopower : fevers, tribes, and bulldozers
  • The crisis : economies, warriors, and the erosion of sovereignty
  • Uses and pleasures : the republic inside out.