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AIDS Doesn't Show Its Face - Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria (Hardcover)
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AIDS Doesn't Show Its Face - Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria (Hardcover)
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AIDS and Africa are indelibly linked in popular consciousness, but
despite widespread awareness of the epidemic, much of the story
remains hidden beneath a superficial focus on condoms, sex workers,
and antiretrovirals. Africa gets lost in this equation, Daniel
Jordan Smith argues, transformed into a mere vehicle to explain
AIDS, and in AIDS Doesn't Show Its Face, he offers a powerful
reversal, using AIDS as a lens through which to view Africa.
Drawing on twenty years of fieldwork in Nigeria, Smith tells a
story of dramatic social changes, ones implicated in the same
inequalities that also factor into local perceptions about AIDS -
inequalities of gender, generation, and social class. Nigerians, he
shows, view both social inequality and the presence of AIDS in
moral terms, as kinds of ethical failure. Mixing ethnographies that
describe everyday life with pointed analyses of public health
interventions, he demonstrates just how powerful these paired
anxieties - medical and social - are, and how the world might
better alleviate them through a more sensitive understanding of
their relationship.
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