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Second Chances
Surviving AIDS in Uganda
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Edited by:
Susan Reynolds Whyte
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English
Published/Copyright:
2014
About this book
During the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life. A massive global health intervention, the scaling up of antiretroviral therapy (ART), saved them and created a generation of people who learned to live with treatment. As clients they joined programs that offered free antiretroviral medicine and encouraged "positive living." Because ART is not a cure but a lifelong treatment regime, its consequences are far-reaching for society, families, and individuals. Drawing on personal accounts and a broad knowledge of Ugandan culture and history, the essays in this collection explore ART from the perspective of those who received second chances. Their concerns about treatment, partners, children, work, food, and bodies reveal the essential sociality of Ugandan life. The collection is based on research undertaken by a team of social scientists including both Western and African scholars.
Contributors. Phoebe Kajubi, David Kyaddondo, Lotte Meinert, Hanne O. Mogensen, Godfrey Etyang Siu, Jenipher Twebaze, Michael A. Whyte, Susan Reynolds Whyte
Contributors. Phoebe Kajubi, David Kyaddondo, Lotte Meinert, Hanne O. Mogensen, Godfrey Etyang Siu, Jenipher Twebaze, Michael A. Whyte, Susan Reynolds Whyte
Author / Editor information
Susan Reynolds Whyte is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. She is the author of Questioning Misfortune: The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda, coauthor of Social Lives of Medicines, and coeditor of Disability in Local and Global Worlds.
Reviews
“The stories are compelling, and the analytical chapters do a good job connecting contemporary developments with the existing anthropology of HIV/AIDS…. Recommended.”
-- M. M. Heaton Choice
“Second Chances is recommended reading for anyone interested in the experiences of people with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. This is also a good book for anyone who is thinking about health systems. One of Whyte’s points that I found particularly important is that people do not simply access treatment, but achieve it.”
-- Anita Chary Global Health Hub
“This is a unique study because it focuses on individuals and how disease and health care affects them. It provides a glimpse at a culture that is rarely covered, as well. Academic libraries supporting social sciences and health sciences programs will want to add this fascinating look at HIV/AIDS from a singular perspective to their collections."
-- Barbara Bibel Library Journal
“Readers familiar with the work of Susan Reynolds Whyte and her colleagues will not be disappointed in this compelling book. In the end, the lesson of Second Chances is that reliance on ‘contingent sociality’ means that not everyone who needs ARTs can get them. The chance for a second chance, therefore, is inherently fragile and unequal. Reynolds Whyte and colleagues offer no solutions, but the moving stories of survival and striving for both a living and a life remind us of the work that remains”
-- Janet W. McGrath Medical Anthropology Quarterly
"Second Chances is an excellent source of health narratives about negotiating HIV status in Uganda. Second Chances will naturally interest anthropologists of East Africa, HIV and biosociality."
-- Jason Johnson Peretz Somatosphere
"Second Chances offers a rigorous and vivid look at the first generation of Ugandans with AIDS to have relatively wide access to antiretroviral therapy . . . . The book is a compelling chronicle of the terms of this 'life sentence'."
-- Tyler Zoanni Social Anthropology
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CONTENTS
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Polygraphy
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INTRODUCTION The First Generation
1 - CASE I. Robinah and Joyce
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CHAPTER ONE Connections
25 - CASE II. Saddam
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CHAPTER TWO Clientship
47 - CASE III. Suzan
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CHAPTER THREE Mobility
71 - CASE IV. MamaGirl & MamaBoy
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CHAPTER FOUR Families
95 - CASE V. Alice
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CHAPTER FIVE Partners
119 - CASE VI. Jackie
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CHAPTER SIX Children
143 - CASE VII. John
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CHAPTER SEVEN Work
167 - CASE VIII. Hassan
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CHAPTER EIGHT Food
191 - CASE IX. Jolly
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CHAPTER NINE Bodies
215 - CASE X. Rachel
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CHAPTER TEN Medicine
237 - CASE XI. Dominic
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CHAPTER ELEVEN Life
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Acknowledgments
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Bibliography
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Contributors
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Index
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October 28, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9780822375975
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