Research Catalog

Title

Politics in the corridor of dying : AIDS activism and global health governance / Jennifer Chan.

Author

Chan, Jennifer

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.

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Description

xviii, 325 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Drawing on more than one hundred interviews conducted across eighteen countries, the author documents the emergence of a diverse range of community-based, nongovernmental, and civil society groups engaged in patient-focused AIDS advocacy worldwide. She also critically evaluates the evolving role of these groups in challenging authoritative global health governance schemes put in place by what she describes as overcontrolling or sanctimonious governments, scientists, religious figures, journalists, educators, and corporations.--From publisher description.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books.

Subject

• AIDS (Disease) > Political aspects
• HIV infections > Political aspects
• AIDS (Disease) > Government policy
• HIV infections > Government policy
• Pressure groups
• HIV Infections
• Organizations
• Dissent and Disputes
• Global Health
• Politics
• Social Justice
• Global Health

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : AIDS activisim and legitimation crises -- Against science and the stigmatization of the "at-risk" body -- Against phsarma and the intellectual propertization of life -- Against governance and the oligopolization of power -- Against community and the expertization of activism -- Conclusions : knowledge and inclusion in global governance.

ISBN

• 9781421415970
• 1421415976
• 9781421415987 (canceled/invalid)
• 1421415984 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2014014552

OCLC

877024361

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library