Will to Live : : AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival / / João Biehl.

Will to Live tells how Brazil, against all odds, became the first developing country to universalize access to life-saving AIDS therapies--a breakthrough made possible by an unexpected alliance of activists, government reformers, development agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry. But anthropolog...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©2007
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:In-Formation
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Physical Description:1 online resource (472 p.) :; 109 halftones. 5 line illus. 6 tables.
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Introduction. A NEW WORLD OF HEALTH --   |t Chapter One. PHARMACEUTICAL GOVERNANCE --   |t Chapter Two. CIRCUITS OF CARE --   |t Chapter Three. A HIDDEN EPIDEMIC --   |t Chapter Four. EXPERIMENTAL SUBJECTS --   |t Chapter Five. PATIENT-CITIZENSHIP --   |t Chapter Six. WILL TO LIVE --   |t Conclusion. GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Notes --   |t References --   |t Index 
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520 |a Will to Live tells how Brazil, against all odds, became the first developing country to universalize access to life-saving AIDS therapies--a breakthrough made possible by an unexpected alliance of activists, government reformers, development agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry. But anthropologist João Biehl also tells why this policy, hailed as a model worldwide, has been so difficult to implement among poor Brazilians with HIV/AIDS, who are often stigmatized as noncompliant or untreatable, becoming invisible to the public. More broadly, Biehl examines the political economy of pharmaceuticals that lies behind large-scale treatment rollouts, revealing the possibilities and inequalities that come with a magic bullet approach to health care. By moving back and forth between the institutions shaping the Brazilian response to AIDS and the people affected by the disease, Biehl has created a book of unusual vividness, scope, and detail. At the core of Will to Live is a group of AIDS patients--unemployed, homeless, involved with prostitution and drugs--that established a makeshift health service. Biehl chronicled the personal lives of these people for over ten years and Torben Eskerod represents them here in more than one hundred stark photographs. Ethnography, social medicine, and art merge in this unique book, illuminating the care and agency needed to extend life amid perennial violence. Full of lessons for the future, Will to Live promises to have a lasting influence in the social sciences and in the theory and practice of global public health. 
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