When Bodies Remember

by Fassin, Didier; Jacobs, Amy; Varro, Gabrielle

• ISBN13: 9780520244672
• ISBN10: 0520244672
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-14
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

Translated from the French, Quand les corps se sourviennent. Examines the experiences of AIDS in South Africa. Includes the epidemic of disputes, anatomy of the controversies, the imprint of the past, living with death, and more. For medical historians and medical anthropologists. Hardcover, softcover available.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Political Anesthesia and Anthropological Concern	p. xi
As If Nothing Ever Happened	p. 1
The Controversy	p. 6
A Life	p. 17
The Structures of Time	p. 27
An Epidemic of Disputes	p. 30
Beginnings	p. 35
Heresy	p. 55
The Configuration of the Polemics	p. 70
Anatomy of the Controversies	p. 75
Ordeals	p. 80
Arenas	p. 96
The Figures of Denial	p. 115
The Imprint of the Past	p. 121
Long Memory	p. 127
Bared History	p. 146
The History of the Vanquished	p. 168
The Embodiment of the World	p. 173
Behind the Landscapes	p. 179
Within the Narratives	p. 201
The Forms of Experience	p. 224
Living with Death	p. 228
Dying	p. 231
Born Again	p. 248
Politics of Life	p. 265
Conclusion: This World We Live In	p. 271
Notes	p. 281
Brief Chronology of South African History	p. 321
Maps	p. 327
Bibliography	p. 329
Index	p. 353
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