South African AIDS Activism and Global Health Politics - M. Mbali

South African AIDS Activism and Global Health Politics

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Buch | Softcover
295 Seiten
2013 | 1st ed. 2013
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-34799-5 (ISBN)
53,45 inkl. MwSt
South Africa has the world's largest number of people living with HIV. This book offers a history of AIDS activism in South Africa from its origins in gay and anti-apartheid activism to the formation and consolidation of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), including its central role in the global HIV treatment access movement.

Mandisa Mbali is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. She is a Rhodes scholar and obtained her doctorate in Modern History at the University of Oxford, UK. Mbali completed postdoctoral training at Yale University, USA and has published a journal article and book chapters on post–apartheid AIDS activism and policy-making.

Introduction: South African AIDS Activism & Global Health Justice PART I: AIDS ACTIVISM & SOUTH AFRICA'S TRANSITION 1. Health for all? Healthworker AIDS Activism 1982 - 94 2. From Pride to Political Funeral: Gay AIDS Activism 1990 - 4 3. Women, Science and Sexism in AIDS Activism in the 1990s PART II: THE TAC & GLOBAL HEALTH POLITICS 4. Science and Sexuality in the Formation of the TAC, 1994 - 2001 5. 'pharma' v. Mandela: South African Moral Capital in a Global Movement 6. Radical legitimacy: Rights & Reasonableness in the TAC, 2001  - 3 7. 'The Durban Effect': The TAC's Impact on Global Health Diplomacy & Governance Conclusion: Recession & Reinventions

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Global Ethics
Zusatzinfo XIII, 295 p.
Verlagsort Basingstoke
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Studium 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte AIDS • Capital • Moral • Morality • Politics
ISBN-10 1-349-34799-X / 134934799X
ISBN-13 978-1-349-34799-5 / 9781349347995
Zustand Neuware
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