Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 082235795X ISBN 13: 9780822357957

Publisher: Duke University Press Books, 2014

Synopsis

During the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life. A massive global health intervention, the scaling up of antiretroviral therapy (ART), saved them and created a generation of people who learned to live with treatment. As clients they joined programs that offered free antiretroviral medicine and encouraged "positive living." Because ART is not a cure but a lifelong treatment regime, its consequences are far-reaching for society, families, and individuals. Drawing on personal accounts and a broad knowledge of Ugandan culture and history, the essays in this collection explore ART from the perspective of those who received second chances. Their concerns about treatment, partners, children, work, food, and bodies reveal the essential sociality of Ugandan life. The collection is based on research undertaken by a team of social scientists including both Western and African scholars.

Contributors. Phoebe Kajubi, David Kyaddondo, Lotte Meinert, Hanne O. Mogensen, Godfrey Etyang Siu, Jenipher Twebaze, Michael A. Whyte, Susan Reynolds Whyte

About this title

About the Author:

Susan Reynolds Whyte is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. She is the author of Questioning Misfortune: The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda, coauthor of Social Lives of Medicines, and coeditor of Disability in Local and Global Worlds.

Review:

"Second Chances provides insight of impressive range and depth into the impact of global health programs. It moves medical anthropology's theoretical agenda along by offering a subtle but sharp critique of contemporary manifestations of biological/therapeutic citizenship. Yet its greatest innovation may be methodological. As a convincing work of collective ethnography, Second Chances reveals the productive potential of 'team' or 'project' anthropology."
(Vinh-Kim Nguyen, author of The Republic of Therapy: Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa's Time of AIDS)

"Bringing classic social anthropology questions to contemporary biopolitical contexts, Second Chances resituates the center of gravity in HIV/AIDS care around the concerns of its patients. The authors make clear the vital role of kinship, patronage, generation, and the economic and bodily concerns of everyday life in determining life amid shifting regimes of global health. With its superb use of extended cases, lively prose, and compelling analysis, Second Chances sets a new standard for collaborative scholarship."
(Julie Livingston, author of Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic)

About this edition

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 082235795X
• ISBN 13: 9780822357957
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Whyte Susan Reynolds