By Daniel Jordan Smith
ISBN-10: 022610866X
ISBN-13: 9780226108667
ISBN-10: 022610883X
ISBN-13: 9780226108834
Drawing on two decades of fieldwork in Nigeria, Smith tells a narrative of dramatic social adjustments, ones implicated within the similar inequalities that still issue into neighborhood perceptions approximately AIDS—inequalities of gender, iteration, and social classification. Nigerians, he exhibits, view either social inequality and the presence of AIDS in ethical phrases, as varieties of moral failure. blending ethnographies that describe way of life with pointed analyses of public health and wellbeing interventions, he demonstrates simply how robust those paired anxieties—medical and social—are, and the way the area may well larger alleviate them via a extra delicate figuring out in their relationship.
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