Infected Kin: Orphan Care and AIDS in Lesotho (Medical Anthropology: Health, Inequality, and Social Justice) - Softcover

Buch 7 von 14: Medical Anthropology

Block, Ellen; McGrath, Will

 
9781978804746: Infected Kin: Orphan Care and AIDS in Lesotho (Medical Anthropology: Health, Inequality, and Social Justice)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1978804741 ISBN 13: 9781978804746
Verlag: RUTGERS UNIV PR, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

AIDS has devastated communities across southern Africa. In Lesotho, where a quarter of adults are infected, the wide-ranging implications of the disease have been felt in every family, disrupting key aspects of social life. In Infected Kin, Ellen Block and Will McGrath argue that AIDS is fundamentally a kinship disease, examining the ways it transcends infected individuals and seeps into kin relations and networks of care. While much AIDS scholarship has turned away from the difficult daily realities of those affected by the disease, Infected Kin uses both ethnographic scholarship and creative nonfiction to bring to life the joys and struggles of the Basotho people at the heart of the AIDS pandemic. The result is a book accessible to wide readership, yet built upon scholarship and theoretical contributions that ensure Infected Kin will remain relevant to anyone interested in anthropology, kinship, global health, and care. 

Supplementary teaching materials are available at: https://www.csbsju.edu/sociology/anthropology-teaching-resources/useful-resources/infected-kin-teaching-resources

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ellen Block is an assistant professor of anthropology in the department of sociology at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota.
 
Will McGrath is an award-winning writer and journalist. He has written for The Atlantic, Pacific Standard, Foreign Affairs, the Christian Science Monitor, and Gastronomica. He is also the author of Everything Lost Is Found Again.

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Verlag
RUTGERS UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1978804741
ISBN 13 
9781978804746
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246
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