Whyte Second Chances

Surviving AIDS in Uganda
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7597-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

Reihe: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography

During the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life. The essays in Second Chances draw on personal accounts and a broad knowledge of Ugandan culture and history to explore antiretroviral therapy from the perspective of those people.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whyte, Susan Reynolds

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Polygraphy vii

Introduction. The First Generation 1

Case I. Robinah and Joyce: The Connecting Sisters 25

1. Connections 34

Case II. Saddam: Treatment Programs 47

2. Clientship 56

Case III. Suzan: The Necessity of Travel 71

3. Mobility 80

Case IV. MamaGirl & MamaBoy: Family Matters 95

4. Families 104

Case V. Alice: Keeping a Good Man 119

5. Partners 128

Case VI. Jackie: Children without Grandparents 143

6. Children 152

Case VII. John: Working Contingencies 167

7. Work 176

Case VIII. Hassan: Soft Food and Town Life 191

8. Food 200

Case IX. Jolly: Appearances and Numbers 215

9. Bodies 223

Case X. Rachel: Buckets of Medicine 237

10. Medicine 245

Case XI. Dominic: A Multitude of Adversities 259

11. Life 268

Acknowledgments 285

Bibliography 287

Contributors 299

Index 301

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Reynolds Whyte is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. She is the author of Questioning Misfortune: The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda, coauthor of Social Lives of Medicines, and coeditor of Disability in Local and Global Worlds.