{"product_id":"hiv-exceptionalism-9780816692439","title":"HIV Exceptionalism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A keenly observed case study.\"—\u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHIV Exceptionalism \u003c\/i\u003ewill be a fine addition to both institutional and personal libraries, offering insights for global health and development scholars, and particularly for HIV\/AIDS researchers.\"—\u003ci\u003eAfrican Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Through fine-grained accounts describing how individuals navigated new structures, new relationships, and new expectations that came along with being beneficiaries of global HIV funding, Benton reveals that jagged edges and uncomfortable truths about broader global-local health encounters. This book tells a compelling story about an entire society adapting to a sudden infusion of donor money for a disease that, in this particular context, barely existed.\"—\u003ci\u003eAnthropological Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Benton recovers numerous silences and opens a conversation foregrounding the unarticulated moral epistemologies people struggle with.\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of African History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Benton adeptly dissects the psychological and practical effects of the well-meaning but often overbearing world of development. \u003ci\u003eHIV Exceptionalism\u003c\/i\u003e is strongly argued and impressively researched.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Lancet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book serves as a critical call to those in the public health field to be wary of health programming that so imbalances comprehensive healthcare services in an effort to target a health problem that is perceived as exceptional, emergent and urgent.\"—\u003ci\u003eMedical Anthropology Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: HIV Exceptionalism in Sierra Leone: Christiana’s Story\u003cbr\u003ePart I. The Exceptional Life of HIV in Sierra Leone\u003cbr\u003e1. The HIV Industry in Postwar Sierra Leone\u003cbr\u003e2. Exceptional Life, Exceptional Suffering: Enumerating HIV’s Truths\u003cbr\u003ePart II. Becoming HIV-Positive\u003cbr\u003e3. The Imperative to Talk: Disclosure and Its Preoccupations\u003cbr\u003e4. Positive Living: Hierarchies of Visibility, Vulnerability, and Self-Reliance\u003cbr\u003ePart III. HIV and Governance\u003cbr\u003e5. For Love of Country: Model Citizens, Good Governance, and the Nationalization of HIV\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: The Future of HIV Exceptionalism\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405974348119,"sku":"9780816692439","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816692439.jpg?v=1730494106","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hiv-exceptionalism-9780816692439","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}