Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities

Dominik Mattes is a postdoctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center “Affective Societies” and the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. His research interests include medical anthropology, critical global health, anthropology of religion, as well as anthropology of affect and emotion.

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Introduction



Chapter 1. Exploring ART in Tanga

Chapter 2. Antiretroviral Treatment as a Global Mobile Force

Chapter 3. Translating Global Technology into Local Health Care Practice

Chapter 4. Generating Treatment Adherence: Neoliberal Patient Subjectivities, Biomedical Truth Claims, and Institutional Micropolitics

Chapter 5. Diverging Trajectories of Reconstitution: Living with ARVs and the Pursuit of ‘Normalcy’

Chapter 6. Cohesion and Conflict: Living a Social Live on ARVs within Kin-Based Networks of Solidarity

Chapter 7. HIV (Self-)Support Groups: Competition, Bureaucracy, and the Limitations of Biosociality

Chapter 8. The Blood of Jesus, Witchcraft, and CD4 Counts: HIV/AIDS and ART in the Context of Traditional and Religious Healing



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