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Hiv, Gender and the Politics of Medicine: Embodied Democracy in the Global South

Hiv, Gender and the Politics of Medicine: Embodied Democracy in the Global South

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Public HealthGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1529221919
ISBN13: 9781529221916
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Published: May 28 2024
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book centres on women living with HIV in South Africa who have navigated affective relationships, activist networks, government institutions and global coalitions to transform health policies that govern access to HIV medicines. Drawing on 20 years of ethnographic and policy research in South Africa, Brazil and India, it highlights the value of understanding the embodied and political dimensions of health policy and reveals the networked threads that weave women's precarity into the governance of technologies and the technologies of governance. It illuminates the entwined histories of health policy evolution, systemic inequality and everyday life and calls for a recognition of the embodied ramifications of democratic politics and global health governance.

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