Preaching prevention : born-again Christianity and the moral politics of AIDS in Uganda / / Lydia Boyd

• Autore: Boyd Lydia
• Pubblicazione: Athens : , : Ohio University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.19697/920096761
• Soggetto topico: AIDS (Disease) - Prevention; HIV infections - Prevention; Christianity - Uganda; Christianity - United States; Medical policy - Uganda; Medical policy - United States; Sexual abstinence - Uganda; Sexual abstinence - United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: American compassion and the politics of AIDS prevention in Uganda -- AIDS at home : urbanization, religious change, and the politics of the household in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Uganda -- "Abstinence is for me, how about you?" : the meaning and morality of sex -- Abstinence and the healthy body : spiritual frameworks for health and -- Healing, or "the right way to live long" -- Faithfulness : urban sexuality and the moral dilemmas of love -- Freedom and the accountable subject : Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill -- Epilogue : beyond the accountable subject.
• Sommario/riassunto: Preaching Prevention examines the controversial U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) initiative to "abstain and be faithful" as a primary prevention strategy in Africa.
• Titolo autorizzato: Preaching prevention
• ISBN: 0-8214-4532-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824334203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Perspectives on global health.