{"product_id":"aids-in-the-shadow-of-biomedicine-inside-south-africas-epidemic-paperback","title":"AIDS in the Shadow of Biomedicine: Inside South Africa's Epidemic - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIsak Niehaus\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Bushbuckridge region of South Africa has one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world. Having first arrived in the area in the early 1990s, the disease spread rapidly, and by 2008 life expectancies had fallen by 12 years for men and 14 years for women. Since 2005, public health facilities have increasingly offered free HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy) treatment, offering a degree of hope, but uptake and adherence to the therapy has been sporadic and uneven.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on his extensive ethnographic research, carried out in Bushbuckridge over the course of 25 years, Isak Niehaus reveals how the AIDS pandemic has been experienced at the village-level. Most significantly, he shows how local cultural practices and values have shaped responses to the epidemic. For example, while local attitudes towards death and misfortune have contributed to the stigma around AIDS, kinship structures have also facilitated the adoption and care of AIDS orphans. Such practices challenge us to rethink the role played by culture in understanding and treating sickness, with Niehaus showing how an appreciation of local beliefs and customs is essential to any effective strategy of AIDS treatment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOverturning many of our assumptions on disease prevention, the book is essential reading for practitioners as well as researchers in global health, anthropology, sociology, epidemiology and scholars interested in public health and administration in sub-Saharan Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsak Niehaus is a senior lecturer in anthropology at Brunel University London, where he currently co-ordinates the MSC program in Medical Anthropology. He has previously held teaching positions at the Universities of the Witwatersrand and Pretoria in South Africa, and lectured at several other universities in Europe and the United States. His previous publications include \u003ci\u003eWitchcraft, Power and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e (co-authored with Eliazaar Mohlala and Kally Shokaneo, 2001) and \u003ci\u003eWitchcraft and a Life in the New South Africa\u003c\/i\u003e (2012).\u003cbr\u003eIsak Niehaus is a senior lecturer in anthropology at Brunel University London, where he currently co-ordinates the MSC program in Medical Anthropology. He has previously held teaching positions at the Universities of the Witwatersrand and Pretoria in South Africa, and lectured at several other universities in Europe and the United States. His previous publications include \u003ci\u003eWitchcraft, Power and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e (co-authored with Eliazaar Mohlala and Kally Shokaneo, 2001) and \u003ci\u003eWitchcraft and a Life in the New South Africa\u003c\/i\u003e (2012).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 212\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52239897657618,"sku":"9781786994745","price":59.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/2211\/5346\/files\/WUtJOFBmdkIwV3BQYXJNWFUvYWJMQT09.webp?v=1777890204","url":"https:\/\/ckbookstore.net\/products\/aids-in-the-shadow-of-biomedicine-inside-south-africas-epidemic-paperback","provider":"CK BOOKSTORE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}