Fault Lines of Care: Gender, HIV, and Global Health in Bolivia

Author:   Carina Heckert
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
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9780813586908


Pages:   204
Publication Date:   01 June 2018
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Fault Lines of Care: Gender, HIV, and Global Health in Bolivia


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The HIV epidemic in Bolivia has received little attention on a global scale in light of the country's low HIV prevalence rate. However, by profiling the largest city in this land-locked Latin American country, Carina Heckert shows how global health-funded HIV care programs at times clash with local realities, which can have catastrophic effects for people living with HIV who must rely on global health resources to survive. These ethnographic insights, as a result, can be applied to AIDS programs across the globe. In Fault Lines of Care, Heckert provides a detailed examination of the effects of global health and governmental policy decisions on the everyday lives of people living with HIV in Santa Cruz. She focuses on the gendered dynamics that play a role in the development and implementation of HIV care programs and shows how decisions made from above impact what happens on the ground.

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Author:   Carina Heckert
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.417kg
ISBN:  

9780813586908


ISBN 10:   0813586909
Pages:   204
Publication Date:   01 June 2018
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Chronicle of Higher Education Weekly Book List, by Nina C. Ayoub


Fault Lines of Care is a remarkable book of the type many of us strive for: a finely grained, moving ethnography that articulates the nature of the broad interactions among individual, community, state-level, and global dynamics in the domain of international HIV/AIDS care. Heckert is a lucid, evocative writer and frankly, I found the book hard to put down. --Carole H. Browner coauthor of Neurogenetic Diagnoses, the Power of Hope, and the Limits of Today's Medicine Carina Heckert's evocative and wrenching ethnography, Fault Lines of Care, conveys the frustrating and at times deadly entanglements of global health agendas with the intimate lived experiences of people living with HIV/ AIDS in resource poor communities in Bolivia. Heckert invites readers on an emotionally-charged journey through her interlocutors' intimate and social experiences of seeking care for HIV/AIDS and ultimately their struggles for survival. This ethnographically rich rendering is an important contribution to our understanding of how people's experiences of chronic disease interact with the biopolitical contours of inequality and poverty, in Bolivia and globally. --Nia Parson author of Traumatic States: Gendered Violence, Suffering, and Care in Chile


Carina Heckert's evocative and wrenching ethnography, Fault Lines of Care, conveys the frustrating and at times deadly entanglements of global health agendas with the intimate lived experiences of people living with HIV/ AIDS in resource poor communities in Bolivia. Heckert invites readers on an emotionally-charged journey through her interlocutors' intimate and social experiences of seeking care for HIV/AIDS and ultimately their struggles for survival. This ethnographically rich rendering is an important contribution to our understanding of how people's experiences of chronic disease interact with the biopolitical contours of inequality and poverty, in Bolivia and globally. --Nia Parson author of Traumatic States: Gendered Violence, Suffering, and Care in Chile Fault Lines of Care is a remarkable book of the type many of us strive for: a finely grained, moving ethnography that articulates the nature of the broad interactions among individual, community, state-level, and global dynamics in the domain of international HIV/AIDS care. Heckert is a lucid, evocative writer and frankly, I found the book hard to put down. --Carole H. Browner coauthor of Neurogenetic Diagnoses, the Power of Hope, and the Limits of Today's Medicine Fault Lines in Care is a remarkable book of the type many of us strive for: a finely grained, moving ethnography that articulates the nature of the broad interactions among individual, community, state-level, and global dynamics in the domain of international HIV/AIDS care. Heckert is a lucid, evocative writer and frankly, I found the book hard to put down. --Carole H. Browner coauthor of Neurogenetic Diagnoses, the Power of Hope, and the Limits of Today's Medicine


Carina Heckert's evocative and wrenching ethnography, Fault Lines, conveys the frustrating and at times deadly entanglements of global health agendas with the intimate lived experiences of people living with HIV/ AIDS in resource poor communities in Bolivia. Heckert invites readers on an emotionally-charged journey through her interlocutors' intimate and social experiences of seeking care for HIV/AIDS and ultimately their struggles for survival. This ethnographically rich rendering is an important contribution to our understanding of how people's experiences of chronic disease interact with the biopolitical contours of inequality and poverty, in Bolivia and globally. --Nia Parson author of Traumatic States: Gendered Violence, Suffering, and Care in Chile Fault Lines in Care is a remarkable book of the type many of us strive for: a finely grained, moving ethnography that articulates the nature of the broad interactions among individual, community, state-level, and global dynamics in the domain of international HIV/AIDS care. Heckert is a lucid, evocative writer and frankly, I found the book hard to put down. --Carole H. Browner coauthor of Neurogenetic Diagnoses, the Power of Hope, and the Limits of Today's Medicine


Carina Heckert's evocative and wrenching ethnography, Fault Lines of Care, conveys the frustrating and at times deadly entanglements of global health agendas with the intimate lived experiences of people living with HIV/ AIDS in resource poor communities in Bolivia. Heckert invites readers on an emotionally-charged journey through her interlocutors' intimate and social experiences of seeking care for HIV/AIDS and ultimately their struggles for survival. This ethnographically rich rendering is an important contribution to our understanding of how people's experiences of chronic disease interact with the biopolitical contours of inequality and poverty, in Bolivia and globally. --Nia Parson author of Traumatic States: Gendered Violence, Suffering, and Care in Chile Fault Lines of Care is a remarkable book of the type many of us strive for: a finely grained, moving ethnography that articulates the nature of the broad interactions among individual, community, state-level, and global dynamics in the domain of international HIV/AIDS care. Heckert is a lucid, evocative writer and frankly, I found the book hard to put down. --Carole H. Browner coauthor of Neurogenetic Diagnoses, the Power of Hope, and the Limits of Today's Medicine


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CARINA HECKERT is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso.

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