Infected Kin : Orphan Care and AIDS in Lesotho.

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 fundamental...

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Main Author: Block, Ellen (Mary Ellen)
Other Authors: McGrath, Will
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2019
Series:Medical anthropology (New Brunswick, N.J.)
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (251 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1978804784
9781978804784
197880475X
9781978804753
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.