In the years since the end of apartheid, South Africans have enjoyed a progressive constitution, considerable access to social services for the poor and sick, and a booming economy that has made their nation into one of the wealthiest on the continent. At the same time, South Africa experiences extremely unequal income distribution, and its citizens suffer the highest prevalence of HIV in the world. As Archbishop Desmond Tutu has noted, AIDS is South Africa's new apartheid. In Ancestors and Antiretrovirals, Claire Laurier Decoteau backs up Tutu's assertion with powerful arguments about how this came to pass. Decoteau traces the historical shifts in health policy after apartheid and describes their effects, detailing, in particular, the changing relationship between biomedical and indigenous health care, both at the national and the local level. Decoteau tells this story from the perspective of those living with and dying from AIDS in Johannesburg's squatter camps. At the same time, she exposes the complex and often contradictory ways that the South African government has failed to balance the demands of neoliberal capital with the considerable health needs of its population.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13
9780226064598
eBay Product ID (ePID)
182939192
Product Key Features
Author
Claire Laurier Decoteau
Publication Name
Ancestors and Antiretrovirals: the Biopolitics of Hiv/Aids in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Government, Healthcare System
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
526g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Claire Laurier Decoteau
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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