Antiretroviral Globalism, Biopolitics, and Therapeutic Citizenship

Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 124-144

  Nguyen, Vinh Kim ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biopolitics; Citizenship; Globalism; Medicines; Pharmacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889366296     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470696569.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

References (12)

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4. Arjun Appadurai, "Introduction: commodities and the politics of value," in The Social Life of Things, Arjun Appadurai, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 3-63.
5. The notion of a "moral economy" draws on E. P. Thompson, "The moral economy of the English crowd in the eighteenth century," Past and Present 50, 1971, pp. 76-134. Thompson shows how capitalist markets brought into conflict different régimes of value. I use it here in a somewhat broader sense, to draw attention to how different social relations produce value.
6. The manner in which individuals access therapy has also been a staple of medical anthropological studies of patterns of resort, also called "therapeutic itineraries." Multiple medical traditions can be accessed either serially or simultaneously. These have drawn attention to "therapy managing groups" that debate options and make decisions on both economic and cultural grounds about which practitioners should be consulted and when. See John M. Janzen, The Quest for Therapy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978)
7. Marc Augé and Claudine Herzlich, Le sens du mal: anthropologie, histoire, sociologie de la maladie (Paris: Editions des archives contemporaines, 1984).
8. See M. Lock, East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980)
9. Paul Brodwin, Medicine and Morality in Haiti: The Contest for Healing Power (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
10. A normal T4 cell count is over 600; with less than 50 cells, patients are at high risk of serious opportunistic infections and death within the year.
11. Vidal Msellati and J.-P. Moatti, eds., L'acces aux traitements du VIH/sida en Côte-d'Ivoire: Évaluation de l'Initiative Onusida/ministere ivoirien de la santé publique, aspects économiques, sociaux et compartementaux (Paris: Éditions de l'Agence nationale de recherché sur le sida, Collection sciences sociales et sida, 2001).
12. C. Adjé et al., "High Prevalence of Genotypic and Phenotypic HIV-1 Drug-Resistant Strains among Patients Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire," Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 26(5), April 15, 2001, pp. 501-6.