Religion and AIDS-treatment in Africa
An edition of Religion and AIDS-treatment in Africa (2014)
Saving Souls, Prolonging Lives
By Rijk van Dijk,Hansjörg Dilger,Marian Burchardt,Thera Rasing
Publish Date
2016
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
Language
eng
Pages
320
Description:
This book critically interrogates emerging interconnections between religion and biomedicine in Africa in the era of antiretroviral treatment for AIDS. Highlighting the complex relationships between religious ideologies, practices and organizations on the one hand, and biomedical treatment programmes and the scientific languages and public health institutions that sustain them on the other, this anthology charts largely uncovered terrain in the social science study of the AIDS epidemic.