AIDS Doesn't Show Its Face (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2014
First published:	March 2014
Authors:	Daniel Jordan Smith
Dimensions:	232 x 160 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-10883-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > History > African history > General
LSN:	0-226-10883-X
Barcode:	9780226108834

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