In this Book
- Mistreated: The Political Consequences of the Fight against AIDS in Lesotho
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: Vanderbilt University Press
summary
As global health institutions and aid donors expanded HIV treatment throughout Africa, they rapidly "scaled up" programs, projects, and organizations meant to address HIV and AIDS. Yet these efforts did not simply have biological effects: in addition to extending lives and preventing further infections, treatment scale-up initiated remarkable political and social shifts.
In Lesotho, which has the world's second highest HIV prevalence, HIV treatment has had unintentional but pervasive political costs, distancing citizens from the government, fostering distrust of health programs, and disrupting the social contract. Based on ethnographic observation between 2008 and 2014, this book chillingly anticipates the political violence and instability that swept through Lesotho in 2014.
This book is a recipient of the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize from Vanderbilt University Press for the best book in the area of medicine.
In Lesotho, which has the world's second highest HIV prevalence, HIV treatment has had unintentional but pervasive political costs, distancing citizens from the government, fostering distrust of health programs, and disrupting the social contract. Based on ethnographic observation between 2008 and 2014, this book chillingly anticipates the political violence and instability that swept through Lesotho in 2014.
This book is a recipient of the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize from Vanderbilt University Press for the best book in the area of medicine.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-vi
- Table of Contents
- pp. vii-viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xiv
- 1. Promises Unfulfilled
- pp. 1-34
- 2. Democratic Deficits
- pp. 35-64
- 3. Building Competent Citizens
- pp. 65-94
- 5. The Privileged and the Damned
- pp. 127-158
- 7. Envisioning Lesotho
- pp. 185-200
- References
- pp. 209-232
Additional Information
ISBN
9780826521569
Related ISBN(s)
9780826521545, 9780826521552
MARC Record
OCLC
1004385217
Pages
256
Launched on MUSE
2017-09-23
Language
English
Open Access
No