All I Eat Is Medicine charts the lives of individuals and institutions in the thick of the Mozambican AIDS epidemic during the global scale-up of treatment for HIV/AIDS in Mozambique 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 Provided by publisher
Contents
Estamos juntos? : the politics of health and survival in Mozambique -- The emergence of the AIDS economy -- Therapeutic congregations : associations of people living with HIV/AIDS -- "We can't find this spirit of help" : the uses of community labor -- Being seen in the day hospital -- Hunger as embodied critique.
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