03790nam 2200709Ia 450 991096582740332120200520144314.09780226064451022606445X9780226064628022606462X10.7208/9780226064628(CKB)2550000001109771(EBL)1332617(OCoLC)855504087(SSID)ssj0000949696(PQKBManifestationID)12420523(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000949696(PQKBWorkID)10996684(PQKB)10394686(StDuBDS)EDZ0000155249(MiAaPQ)EBC1332617(DE-B1597)524239(DE-B1597)9780226064628(Perlego)1850554(EXLCZ)99255000000110977120130308h20132013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAncestors and antiretrovirals the biopolitics of HIV/AIDS in post-apartheid South Africa /Claire Laurier DecoteauChicago ;London University of Chicago Pressc20131 online resource (343 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780226064598 022606459X 9781299784680 1299784682 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Note on Terminology --Abbreviations --Introduction. Postcolonial Paradox --ONE. The Struggle for Life in South Africa's Slums --TWO. A State in Denial --THREE. Biomedical Citizenship --FOUR. The Politicization of Sexuality --FIVE. Hybridity --CODA. Life Strategies --Notes --Glossary --References --IndexIn 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 arguments about how this came to pass. Decoteau traces the historical shifts in health policy after apartheid and describes their effects, detailing, in particular, the changing relationship between biomedical and indigenous health care, both at the national and the local level. Decoteau tells this story from the perspective of those living with and dying from AIDS in Johannesburg's squatter camps. At the same time, she exposes the complex and often contradictory ways that the South African government has failed to balance the demands of neoliberal capital with the considerable health needs of its population.AIDS (Disease)Social aspectsSouth AfricaAIDS (Disease)Political aspectsSouth AfricaHIV-positive personsSouth AfricaHealth services accessibilitySouth AfricaSouth AfricansMedicineAIDS (Disease)Social aspectsAIDS (Disease)Political aspectsHIV-positive personsHealth services accessibilitySouth AfricansMedicine.362.19697/9200967Decoteau Claire Laurier1807063MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910965827403321Ancestors and antiretrovirals4356580UNINA