Public secrets and private sufferings in the South African AIDS epidemic / Jonathan Stadler.
Stadler, Jonathan, author.
2021
RA643.86.S6
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Title Public secrets and private sufferings in the South African AIDS epidemic / Jonathan Stadler.
Author Stadler, Jonathan, author.
ISBN 9783030694371 (electronic bk.)
3030694372 (electronic bk.)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69437-1
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 188 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-69437-1 doi
Call Number RA643.86.S6
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.196979200968
Summary This book tells the story of the HIV epidemic in South Africa, and asks why, after more than three decades, it has not normalised. Despite considerable efforts to prevent infection, and ambitious targets set to end the epidemic by 2030, HIV infections are increasing among young women and treatment uptake and adherence have been uneven. Focusing on the years preceding and following treatment access, this book addresses why an end to AIDS may be misplaced optimism. By examining public discourses and private narratives about infection, illness and death, this work reveals the contradictions between the lived experiences of AIDS suffering on the one hand, and biomedical certainties on the other. Based on long-term ethnographic research in rural villages of the South African lowveld, and within HIV prevention interventions in South Africa more generally, this book offers an intimate perspective on the social and cultural responses to the epidemic.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 13, 2021).
Series Social aspects of HIV ; v. 6. 2509-6559
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783030694364
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Revenge and remembering : idioms and accusations of witchcraft and AIDS
Hope and loss : illness narratives from the margins
Death and dying : narrating the end of life
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