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This book makes an important contribution to understanding the scale and complexity of the HIV epidemic in South Africa by recasting what is now viewed as a notorious conflict between former South African President Mbeki […] and the Treatment Action Campaign […] By drawing on feminist theories of materiality as well as Science and Technology Studies to revisit the two historically opposed approaches, Pienaar provides the reader with a more complex relational (or 'intra-active') and hence dynamic account of the epidemic. This will have relevance for public health analysts and implementers as well as for those in the social sciences looking to devise novel modes of inquiry and intervention in response to current health and medical challenges.' - Marsha Rosengarten, Professor and Director of the Unit of Play, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK; author of HIV Interventions: Biomedicine and the Traffic between Information and Flesh
'This book draws on the insights and approaches of feminist science studies to analyse the materialization of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, connecting it to the history of conflicts between government and biomedical explanations of the disease and the policies emerging in response to these conflicts. Pienaar expertly demonstrates how scientific controversies matter and find expression in the experience and lived impacts of the condition known as HIV/AIDS. With its exceptionally lucid explication of feminist science studies approaches and its skilled demonstration of the difference these make to empirical analysis and lived experience, this book will provide an excellent resource for researchers and students who wish to realise the transformative impacts of conceptually innovative work.'- Kane Race, Associate Professor and Director of Cultural Studies, University of Sydney, Australia; author of Pleasure Consuming Medicine: The Queer Politics of Drugs
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Book Title: Politics in the Making of HIV/AIDS in South Africa
Authors: Kiran Pienaar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-50507-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-50500-2Published: 16 March 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-50507-1Published: 04 March 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 157
Topics: Medical Sociology, Political Sociology, African Culture, Sociology, general, Popular Science in Medicine and Health, Social Structure, Social Inequality