Description

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Introduction: HIV/AIDS as a Site of Struggle in South Africa

1. Disease in Theory and Practice

2. Contesting Science, Making Disease

3. Poverty in the Making of HIV/AIDS

4. Disease as a Politics of the Human

5. Conclusion: Towards an Ontological Politics of Disease

Appendix A: An Overview of the Struggles over HIV in South Africa (1998-2014)

About the Author

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Kiran Pienaar is a Research Associate at the National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University, Australia. Her research interests include the biopolitics of health and illness, addiction, posthumanist theories, and feminist approaches to materiality.