Infected Kin : Orphan Care and AIDS in Lesotho, Hardcover by Block, Ellen; Mc...

Description: Infected Kin : Orphan Care and AIDS in Lesotho, Hardcover by Block, Ellen; McGrath, Will, ISBN 197880475X, ISBN-13 9781978804753, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Drawing on fieldwork she conducted between 2007 and 2015, Block, an anthropologist, examines AIDS as a kinship disease and the economic and structural contexts of the disease in Lesotho, focusing on the care of orphaned children with AIDS by the Basotho ethnic group. She explores kinship practices in general and what it means to be a Mosotho; the different ways Basotho think about health and illness in general and HIV specifically; the challenges of treating HIV/AIDS, the extent to which social and familial concerns impact the pathology of the illness, and structural barriers that hinder treatment and prevention efforts, including the role of stigma; and the ways AIDS orphans are cared for in the midst of a pandemic that has been changing the social life in Lesotho for decades, as well as Basotho ideas of caregiving and kin-based fostering. Throughout the book are literary nonfiction vignettes written by McGrath, a writer and journalist. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()

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Book Title: Infected Kin : Orphan Care and AIDS in Lesotho

Number of Pages: 246 Pages

Publication Name: Infected Kin : Orphan Care and Aids in Lesotho

Language: English

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Item Height: 0.9 in

Subject: Aids & Hiv, Children's Studies, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Caregiving, Anthropology / General, Sociology / Marriage & Family

Publication Year: 2019

Item Weight: 16.4 Oz

Type: Textbook

Item Length: 9 in

Subject Area: Social Science, Medical

Author: Ellen Block, Will Mcgrath

Series: Medical Anthropology Ser.

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Hardcover