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This post was contributed by Ippolytos Kalofonos (University of Washington)
Introduction
The global effort to expand the provision of antiretroviral treatment in low and middle-income countries initiated in the early part of this decade represents the largest collective medical intervention in history. It has been funded by many …
Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions. Edited by Didier Fassin and Mariella Pandolfi
Zone Books, 2010
408 pp., $36.95 (hardback)
Reviewed by Ross Parsons
(Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Africa University, Zimbabwe)
A recent Zimbabwean joke had it that ‘if the four horsemen of the Apocalypse had not already arrived, then there were …
Colonial Psychiatry Hub is a recently launched blog written by a DPhil student at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford, whose research “concerns the practice of psychiatry in Church Missionary Society hospitals in Uganda, 1897-1944.” While it has only been up for a number of months, the site has great potential to fulfill on its …
This post was contributed by Ari Samsky.
It is adapted from his paper “Medical Humanitarianism Without Humans: How international drug donation programs reshape health, disease, and local law,” which won the 2009 Rudolph Virchow Graduate Paper Award.
In Paris in March of 2008 I attended an international coordinating meeting of non-governmental groups involved in the control of onchocerciasis, a blinding …
The latest issue of Social Theory and Health is devoted to HIV/AIDS. Here’s an excerpt from guest editors Eric Mykhalovskiy and Marsha Rosengarten’s introduction to the issue:
“As HIV/AIDS nears three decades of response and intervention, theoretically engaged scholarly commentary on the topic is on the wane. We make that judgment with care, wary of the dangers of nostalgia and
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Unimagined Community: Sex, Networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa. Robert J. Thornton.
University of California Press, 2008.
On the morning of November 5th, I dragged myself to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in a state of exhausted euphoria. One of my colleagues had asked during the first week of term if I wouldn’t mind examining …