Religion and AIDS treatment in Africa: saving souls, prolonging lives
This book critically interrogates emerging interconnections between religion and biomedicine in Africa in the era of antiretroviral treatment for AIDS. Highlighting the complex relationships between religious ideologies, practices and organizations on the one hand, and biomedical treatment programme...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Farnham, Surrey [u.a.]
Ashgate
2014
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| In: | Year: 2014 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Africa
/ AIDS
/ Disease
/ Therapy
/ Religious institution
/ Christianity
/ Medicine
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| Further subjects: | B
AIDS (Disease)
Treatment (Africa)
B AIDS (Disease) Treatment Religious aspects Christianity |
| Summary: | This book critically interrogates emerging interconnections between religion and biomedicine in Africa in the era of antiretroviral treatment for AIDS. Highlighting the complex relationships between religious ideologies, practices and organizations on the one hand, and biomedical treatment programmes and the scientific languages and public health institutions that sustain them on the other, this anthology charts largely uncovered terrain in the social science study of the AIDS epidemic |
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| ISBN: | 1409456692 |