Hansjörg (Hrsg.) Dilger

Morality, Hope and Grief

Anthropologies of AIDS in Africa

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The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has been addressed and perceived predominantly through the broad perspectives of social and economic theories as well as public health and development discourses. This volume however, focuses on the micro-politics of illness, treatment and death in order to offer innovative insights into the complex processes that shape individual and community responses to AIDS. The contributions describe the dilemmas that families, communities and health professionals face and shed new light on the transformation of social and moral orders in African societies, which have been increasingly marginalised in the con… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Luig, Ute (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-84545-829-4
EAN: 9781845458294
Produktnummer: 20450071
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 356 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'050 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Reihenbandnummer: 7

Über den Autor

Hansjörg Dilger is Junior Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin. Between 1995 and 2003, he carried out long-term fieldwork on AIDS and social relationships in rural and urban Tanzania. He is the author of Living with Aids. Illness, Death and Social Relationships in Africa. An Ethnography (Campus, 2005 in German). His recent research has focused on histories of social and religious inequality and the growing presence of Christian and Muslim schools in Dar es Salaam.