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Author Nguyen, Vinh-Kim.

Title The republic of therapy : triage and sovereignty in West Africa's time of AIDS / Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Published Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010
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Description 1 online resource ( xi, 237 pages.)
Series Body, commodity, text; Studies of objectifying practice
Body, commodity, text.
Contents Testimonials that bind : organizing communities with HIV -- Confessional technologies : conjuring the self -- Soldiers of God : together and apart -- Life itself : triage and therapeutic citizenship -- Biopower : fevers, tribes, and bulldozers -- The crisis : economies, warriors, and the erosion of sovereignty -- Uses and pleasures : the republic inside out
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-227) and index
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Subject AIDS (Disease) -- Africa, West.
HIV infections -- Africa, West.
Medical anthropology.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0822393506 (electronic bk.)
9780822393504 (electronic bk.)
1283065754
9781283065757
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