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Author Fassin, Didier.

Title When bodies remember : experiences and politics of AIDS in South Africa / Didier Fassin ; translated by Amy Jacobs and Gabrielle Varro.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 365 pages) : maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series California series in public anthropology ; 15
California series in public anthropology ; 15.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-351) and index.
Summary Didier Fassin takes on one of the most tragic stories of the global AIDS crisis - the failure of the ANC government to stem the tide of the AIDS epidemic in South Africa. This work traces the deep roots of the AIDS crisis to apartheid and, before that, to the colonial period.
Contents Contents; Introduction: Political Anesthesia and Anthropological Concern; 1 As If Nothing Ever Happened; 2 An Epidemic of Disputes; 3 Anatomy of the Controversies; 4 The Imprint of the Past; 5 The Embodiment of the World; 6 Living with Death; Conclusion: This World We Live In; Notes; Brief Chronology of South African History; Maps; Bibliography; Index.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language Translated from the French.
Subject AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- South Africa.
AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects.
South Africa.
AIDS (Disease) -- Political aspects -- South Africa.
AIDS (Disease) -- Political aspects.
AIDS (Disease)
AIDS (Disease) -- Government policy -- South Africa.
AIDS (Disease) -- Government policy.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- ethnology.
Politics.
South Africa.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Quand les corps se souviennent. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006062517
Other Form: Print version: Fassin, Didier. Quand les corps se souviennent. English. When bodies remember. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007 0520244672 9780520244672 (DLC) 2006026404 (OCoLC)70921476
ISBN 9780520940451 (electronic book)
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