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AIDS in the shadow of biomedicine : inside South Africa's epidemic
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ISBN: 9781786994738 1786994739 9781786994752 9781786994769 9781786994776 Year: 2018 Publisher: London ZED

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The Bushbuckridge region of South Africa has one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world. Having first arrived in the area in the early 1990s, the disease spread rapidly, and by 2008 life expectancies had fallen by 12 years for men and 14 years for women. Since 2005, public health facilities have increasingly offered free HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy) treatment, offering a modicum of hope, but uptake and adherence to the therapy has been sporadic and uneven. Drawing on his extensive ethnographic research, carried out in Bushbuckridge over the course of 25 years, Isak Niehaus reveals how the AIDS pandemic has been experienced at the village-level. Most significantly, he shows how local cultural practices and values have shaped responses to the epidemic. For example, while local attitudes towards death and misfortune have contributed to the stigma around AIDS, kinship structures have also facilitated the adoption and care of AIDS orphans. Such practices challenge us to rethink the role played by culture in understanding and treating sickness, with Niehaus showing how an appreciation of local beliefs and customs is essential to any effective strategy of AIDS treatment. Overturning many of the Universalist assumptions on disease prevention, the book is essential reading for practitioners as well as researchers in global health, anthropology, sociology, epidemiology and scholars interested in public health and administration in the sub-Saharan region.


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Queering the Countryside
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ISBN: 1479890898 9781479890897 9781479830770 1479830771 9781479880584 1479880582 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York, NY

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"Rural queer experience is often hidden or ignored, and presumed to be alienating, lacking, and incomplete without connections to a gay culture that exists in an urban elsewhere. Queering the Countryside offers the first comprehensive look at queer desires found in rural America from a genuinely multi-disciplinary perspective. This collection of original essays confronts the assumption that queer desires depend upon urban life for meaning. By considering rural queer life, the contributors challenge readers to explore queer experiences in ways that give greater context and texture to modern practices of identity formation. The book's focus on understudied rural spaces throws into relief the overemphasis of urban locations and structures in the current political and theoretical work on queer sexualities and genders. Queering the Countryside highlights the need to rethink notions of the closet and coming out and the characterizations of non-urban sexualities and genders as isolated and in need of outreach." --

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Estudios de genero --- Mujeres --- Homosexualidad --- Transexualismo --- Vida rural --- Sexualidad --- Aspecto social --- Rural gay men. --- Rural lesbians. --- Country life. --- Sociology, Rural. --- Homosexuality --- Study and teaching. --- Sexual and Gender Minorities. --- Rural Population. --- Rural Health. --- Sexual minorities. --- Gender minorities --- GLBT people --- GLBTQ people --- Lesbigay people --- LBG people --- LGBT people --- LGBTQ people --- Non-heterosexual people --- Non-heterosexuals --- Sexual dissidents --- Minorities --- Hygiene, Rural --- Rural public health --- Environmental health --- Health --- Public health --- Medicine, Rural --- Rural Communities --- Rural Spatial Distribution --- Rural Residence --- Communities, Rural --- Community, Rural --- Distribution, Rural Spatial --- Distributions, Rural Spatial --- Population, Rural --- Populations, Rural --- Residence, Rural --- Rural Community --- Rural Populations --- Rural Residences --- Rural Spatial Distributions --- Bisexuals --- GLBT Persons --- GLBTQ Persons --- Gender Minorities --- Homosexuals --- LBG Persons --- LGBT Persons --- LGBTQ Persons --- Lesbians --- Lesbigay Persons --- Men Who Have Sex With Men --- Non-Heterosexual Persons --- Non-Heterosexuals --- Queers --- Sexual Dissidents --- Sexual Minorities --- Women Who Have Sex With Women --- Gays --- Bisexual --- Dissident, Sexual --- Dissidents, Sexual --- GLBT Person --- GLBTQ Person --- Gay --- Gender Minority --- Homosexual --- LBG Person --- LGBT Person --- LGBTQ Person --- Lesbian --- Lesbigay Person --- Minorities, Gender --- Minorities, Sexual --- Minority, Gender --- Minority, Sexual --- Non Heterosexual Persons --- Non Heterosexuals --- Non-Heterosexual --- Non-Heterosexual Person --- Person, GLBT --- Person, GLBTQ --- Person, LBG --- Person, LGBT --- Person, LGBTQ --- Person, Lesbigay --- Person, Non-Heterosexual --- Persons, GLBT --- Persons, GLBTQ --- Persons, LBG --- Persons, LGBT --- Persons, LGBTQ --- Persons, Lesbigay --- Queer --- Sexual Dissident --- Sexual Minority --- Bisexuality --- Homosexuality, Male --- Homosexuality, Female --- Gay men --- Rural men

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