Government-by-exception: Enrolment and experimentality in mass HIV treatment programmes in Africa

Social Theory and Health

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 196-217

  Nguyen, V K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Africa; Antiretrovirals; Exception; Experimentality; HIV; Sovereignty

Indexed keywords

EID: 68249106332     PISSN: 14778211     EISSN: 1477822X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/sth.2009.12     Document Type: Article

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