AIDS Activism, Science and Community Across Three Continents

• Main Author: Lorway, Robert (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Social Aspects of HIV, 1
• Subjects: Medicine.; Comparative politics.; Public health.; Anthropology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Public Health.; Comparative Politics.

This book critically examines the many complex entanglements between AIDS activism and HIV science. It takes readers on a medical anthropological expedition across time and space that highlights the stakes from the perspective of those most affected by the epidemic. Author Robert Lorway reveals how...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Section I. Canada: Professionalization: Chapter 1: A Vital Response
• Chapter 2: Treatment Rebellions
• Section II. India: Techno-Bureaucracies: Chapter 3: Geographies of Intervention
• Chapter 4: Documenting Sovereignty
• Section III. Kenya: Bioexperimentalization
• Chapter 5: A South-to-South Collaboration
• Chapter 6:The Logic of Verification
• Conclusion.