CHAPTER 3. Lessons in Medical Nihilism: Virus Hunters, Neoliberalism, and the AIDS Pandemic in Cameroon

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1 Introduction 1
4. PART I: RUPTURE, CONTINUITY
5. CHAPTER 1. Treating to Prevent HIV: Population Trials and Experimental Societies 47
6. CHAPTER 2. Trialing Drugs, Creating Publics: Medical Research, Leprosy Control, and the Construction of a Public Health Sphere in Post-1945 Nigeria 78
7. PART II: PAST, FUTURES
8. CHAPTER 3. Lessons in Medical Nihilism: Virus Hunters, Neoliberalism, and the AIDS Pandemic in Cameroon 103
9. CHAPTER 4. What Future Remains? Remembering an African Place of Science 142
10. PART III: STATE REMAINS
11. CHAPTER 5. International Health and the Proliferation of “Partnerships”: (Un)Intended Boost for State Institutions in Tanzania? 179
12. CHAPTER 6. Working and Surviving: Government Employees on ART in Uganda 207
13. PART IV: AFFECTIVE WHOLES
14. CHAPTER 7. Molecular and Municipal Politics: Research and Regulation in Dakar 237
15. CHAPTER 8. The Work of the Virus: Cutting and Creating Relations in an ART Project 257
16. PART V: STRUGGLING NATION
17. CHAPTER 9. The Blue Warriors: Ecology, Participation, and Public Health in Malaria Control Experiments 281
18. CHAPTER 10. The Territory of Medical Research: Experimentation in Africa’s Smallest State 303
19. CHAPTER 11. Adventures of African Nevirapine: The Political Biography of a Magic Bullet 333
20. Contributors 355
21. Index 357