Will to Live (eBook)

AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival

João Biehl (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
472 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3279-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Will to Live tells how Brazil, against all odds, became the first developing country to universalize access to life-saving AIDS therapies--a breakthrough made possible by an unexpected alliance of activists, government reformers, development agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry. But anthropologist Joao Biehl also tells why this policy, hailed as a model worldwide, has been so difficult to implement among poor Brazilians with HIV/AIDS, who are often stigmatized as noncompliant or untreatable, becoming invisible to the public. More broadly, Biehl examines the political economy of pharmaceuticals that lies behind large-scale treatment rollouts, revealing the possibilities and inequalities that come with a magic bullet approach to health care. By moving back and forth between the institutions shaping the Brazilian response to AIDS and the people affected by the disease, Biehl has created a book of unusual vividness, scope, and detail. At the core of Will to Live is a group of AIDS patients--unemployed, homeless, involved with prostitution and drugs--that established a makeshift health service. Biehl chronicled the personal lives of these people for over ten years and Torben Eskerod represents them here in more than one hundred stark photographs. Ethnography, social medicine, and art merge in this unique book, illuminating the care and agency needed to extend life amid perennial violence. Full of lessons for the future, Will to Live promises to have a lasting influence in the social sciences and in the theory and practice of global public health.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.10.2021
• Reihe/Serie: In-Formation
• Reihe/Serie: In-Formation
• Illustrationen: Torben Eskerod
• Zusatzinfo: 109 halftones. 5 line illus. 6 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medizinrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • addiction • AIDS Orphan • Alternative medicine • Antimalarial medication • Civil Society • Class action • clinical trial • Community Health • decentralization • Diagnosis of HIV/AIDS • diphtheria • Disease • drug development • Drug injection • Drug policy • drug rehabilitation • drug resistance • Epidemic • epidemiology • Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS • ethnography • Expanded access • extreme poverty • Funding • Generic drug • Global Health Initiatives • Governance • Governmentality • Health campaign • Health Care • health professional • Health system • Helen Epstein (HIV/AIDS journalist) • HIV • HIV/Aids • HIV/AIDS denialism • HIV/AIDS in the United States • HIV-positive people • HIV vaccine • Homo sacer • Hospital • Infrastructure • Inpatient Care • Institution • Internship (medicine) • Jacques Lacan • Judith Butler • Lederman • Libido • Malaria • Management of HIV/AIDS • Maternal death • Medical state • Michael M. J. Fischer • Military Dictatorship • Needle exchange programme • neurosis • Non-governmental organization • orphanage • Overmedication • over-the-counter drug • Pasteur Institute • Pathology • Paul Farmer • People with AIDS • Peter Piot • Peter Singer • pharmaceutical drug • Pharmaceutical Industry • Pharmaceutical Marketing • Physician • Politics • prenatal care • preta • prevention of HIV/AIDS • prognosis • Prostitution • protectionism • Psychoanalysis • Public Expenditure • Public Health • Public hospital • Risk of infection • safe sex • self-medication • seroprevalence • Sexually Transmitted Infection • Sexual Revolution • social death • Symptom • Technology • The House of God • The Politician (book) • Triage • Unemployment • Unlicensed assistive personnel • welfare • window period • World Health Organization
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3279-9 / 1400832799
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3279-8 / 9781400832798