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Lädt ... The Republic of Therapy: Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS (Body, Commodity, Text)von Vinh-Kim Nguyen
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The story of the global response to the HIV epidemic, told from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa between 1994 and 2000. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Examining the HIV/AIDS epidemic in West Africa, Nguyen's work offers case studies and analysis of what occurred when treatment was nowhere near available for all of those patients who needed it, and where triage meant deciding who lived and who died. Beyond these difficult discussions, though, the most powerful parts of the book take on questions of how community organizers and victims of HIV acted on behalf of particular stories, narratives, and victims, working to affect choices of triage and so benefit not just particular people, but specific organizations and funding opportunities. The fact that being able to speak one's story, and offer testimony of one's being affected by HIV/AIDS, was itself a factor in whether or not one might be treated at all is a hard fact to accept, much as it might make sense in the larger scheme of things. But even beyond this point, there's then the fact that such divisions had direct bearing on relationships. Where funding, treatment, and resources are limited, those who receive any of the above are set apart from their peers, so that triage affecting treatment in fact affects a great deal more than who lives and who dies, painful even as that fact alone may be.
Although Nguyen's work is extremely academic in nature, and not an easy read, it does tackle difficult territory and questions, and offer in-depth discussions related to choices of triage and treatment in the history of HIV/AIDS in West Africa. It's no an easy read, and not particularly readable in all truth, but it is an important discussion with a direct view, and well-researched. The tone and the style do get in the way of a reader's easy engagement with the text, but readers who are interested in the subject will still find the book to be worth their time. ( )