The republic of therapy
Subtitle: triage and sovereignty in West Africa's time of AIDS
By: Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Series: Body, commodity, text; Body, commodity, text
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780822348627; 9780822348740
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Testimonials that bind : organizing communities with HIV; title: Confessional technologies : conjuring the self; title: Soldiers of God : together and apart; title: Life itself : triage and therapeutic citizenship; title: Biopower : fevers, tribes, and bulldozers; title: The crisis : economies, warriors, and the erosion of sovereignty; title: Uses and pleasures : the republic inside out.