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AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival
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Will to Live tells how Brazil, against all odds, became the first developing country to universalize access to life-saving AIDS therapies--a breakthrough made possible by an unexpected alliance of activists, government reformers, development agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry. But anthropologist Joao Biehl also tells why this policy, hailed as a model worldwide, has been so difficult to implement among poor Brazilians with HIV/AIDS, who are often stigmatized as noncompliant or untreatable, becoming invisible to the public. More broadly, Biehl examines the political economy of pharmaceuticals that lies behind large-scale treatment rollouts, revealing the possibilities and inequalities that come with a magic bullet approach to health care. By moving back and forth between the institutions shaping the Brazilian response to AIDS and the people affected by the disease, Biehl has created a book of unusual vividness, scope, and detail. At the core of Will to Live is a group of AIDS patients--unemployed, homeless, involved with prostitution and drugs--that established a makeshift health service. Biehl chronicled the personal lives of these people for over ten years and Torben Eskerod represents them here in more than one hundred stark photographs. Ethnography, social medicine, and art merge in this unique book, illuminating the care and agency needed to extend life amid perennial violence. Full of lessons for the future, Will to Live promises to have a lasting influence in the social sciences and in the theory and practice of global public health.

Author Biography:

Joao Biehl is professor of anthropology at Princeton University. Torben Eskerod is an artist and freelance photographer based in Copenhagen. The two also collaborated on the award-winning book "Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment."
Release date NZ
May 17th, 2009
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Audiences
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
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  • Photographs by Torben Eskerod
Illustrations
109 halftones. 5 line illus. 6 tables.
Pages
480
Dimensions
152x229x28
ISBN-13
9780691143859
Product ID
3119638

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