Mobile Patients, Static Response
Subtitle: managing well-being amidst South Africa's dual epidemic
Contributors: Kleinman, Arthur; Farmer, Paul E.; Comaroff, Jean
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Description: Drawing from medical anthropology's approach to global health, this dissertation examines well-being among HIV- and TB-infected labor migrants in South Africa. Based on forty-four months of fieldwork from 2005 to 2013, it narrates households' struggles to make ends meet materially and morally in a context of unemployment, scarcity, and epidemic.
Notes: Keywords: HIV, labor migration, mobility, South Africa, TB, tuberculosis.

Thesis Ph.D. Harvard University 2013