Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-197) and index.
Contents:
Okada men, money, and the moral hazards of urban inequality -- Gender inequality, sexual morality, and AIDS -- "Come and receive your miracle": Pentecostal Christianity and AIDS -- "Feeding fat on AIDS": NGOs, inequality, and corruption -- Returning home to die: migration and kinship in the era of AIDS -- Living with HIV: the ethical dilemmas of building a normal life.
Summary:
"AIDS and Africa are indelibly linked in popular consciousness, but despite widespread awareness of the epidemic, much of the story remains hidden beneath a superficial focus on condoms, sex workers, and antiretrovirals. Africa gets lost in this equation, Daniel Jordan Smith argues, transformed into a mere vehicle to explain AIDS, and in AIDS Doesn't Show Its Face, he offers a powerful reversal, using AIDS as a lens through which to view Africa. Drawing on twenty years of fieldwork in Nigeria, Smith tells a story of dramatic social changes, ones implicated in the same inequalities that also factor into local perceptions about AIDS--inequalities of gender, generation, and social class. Nigerians, he shows, view both social inequality and the presence of AIDS in moral terms, as kinds of ethical failure. Mixing ethnographies that describe everyday life with pointed analyses of public health interventions, he demonstrates just how powerful these paired anxieties--medical and social--are, and how the world might better alleviate them through a more sensitive understanding of their relationship." -- Publisher's description.
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