Ancestors and Antiretrovirals : the Biopolitics of HIV/AIDS in Post-Apartheid South Africa.

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Author / Creator:Decoteau, Claire Laurier.
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Description:1 online resource (343 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11202349
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ISBN:9780226064628
022606462X
9781299784680
1299784682
022606445X
9780226064451
022606459X
9780226064598
Notes:Includes bibliographical references references (pages 277-312) and index.
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Summary:In the years since the end of apartheid, South Africans have enjoyed a progressive constitution, considerable access to social services for the poor and sick, and a booming economy that has made their nation into one of the wealthiest on the continent. At the same time, South Africa experiences extremely unequal income distribution, and its citizens suffer the highest prevalence of HIV in the world. As Archbishop Desmond Tutu has noted, "AIDS is South Africa's new apartheid." In Ancestors and Antiretrovirals, Claire Laurier Decoteau backs up Tutu's assertion with powerful a.
Other form:Print version: Decoteau, Claire Laurier. Ancestors and Antiretrovirals : The Biopolitics of HIV/AIDS in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2013 9780226064451
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