HIV, Gender and the Politics of Medicine: Embodied Democracy in the Global South

by: Elizabeth Mills (Author)

Publisher: Bristol University Press

Publication Date: May 28, 2024

Language: English

Print Length: 288 pages

ISBN-10: 1529221919

ISBN-13: 9781529221916

Book Description

This book centres on women living with HIV in South Africa who have navigated affective relationships, activist networks, govement institutions and global coalitions to transform health policies that gove access to HIV medicines. Drawing on 20 years of ethnographic and policy research in South Africa, Brazil and India, it highlights the value of understanding the embodied and political dimensions of health policy and reveals the networked threads that weave women’s precarity into the goveance of technologies and the technologies of goveance. It illuminates the entwined histories of health policy evolution, systemic inequality and everyday life and calls for a recognition of the embodied ramifications of democratic politics and global health goveance. By integrating medical anthropology with science studies and political theory, this book traces the history of the struggle to access HIV medicines in the Global South and brings it into the present by articulating the lessons leaed by activists and policy makers engaged in shaping these vital health policies.
This book centres on women living with HIV in South Africa who have navigated affective relationships, activist networks, govement institutions and global coalitions to transform health policies that gove access to HIV medicines. Drawing on 20 years of ethnographic and policy research in South Africa, Brazil and India, it highlights the value of understanding the embodied and political dimensions of health policy and reveals the networked threads that weave women’s precarity into the goveance of technologies and the technologies of goveance. It illuminates the entwined histories of health policy evolution, systemic inequality and everyday life and calls for a recognition of the embodied ramifications of democratic politics and global health goveance. By integrating medical anthropology with science studies and political theory, this book traces the history of the struggle to access HIV medicines in the Global South and brings it into the present by articulating the lessons leaed by activists and policy makers engaged in shaping these vital health policies. Read more