AIDS has been experienced in Nepal mostly as an expected epidemic. When
epidemiologists in the late 1980s began warning that South Asia would soon be hit by an …

Passage to Manhood addresses the intersection of modernity, heroin use, and HIV/AIDS as
they are embodied in a new rite-of-passage among young men in the Sichuan province of …

Much of the current health approach to designing HIV/AIDS interventions in resource-poor
settings involves behavior-change initiatives, particularly those adopting education-based …

A widespread theory in the province of Papua, Eastern Indonesia, links the spread of sex
workers and HIV/AIDS to a broader government conspiracy to eliminate indigenous …

Although medicalization is a concept that has been widely taken up and used by medical
anthropologists, it was sociologists who first coined the term and put it into circulation. One of …

Drawing on ten years of ethnographic research, two hundred fifty interviews, and over three
hundred youth love letters, author Shanti Parikh uses lively vignettes to provide a rare …

Engaging with a range of public health issues, this book charts important social and political
transitions in Nepal through the lens of medicine and health development. It focuses on …

This commentary asks anthropologists to work within communities to actively address the
global mental health impact of COVID‐19 and contribute to the pandemic response. Multiple …

Extrait de la 4e de couverture: Comme les autres sciences sociales, l'anthropologie est
confrontée à la globalisation des phénomènes sociaux qui gagne en ampleur, en intensité …

This paper analyses AIDS-prevention therapeutics as ethical technologies of governance
relative to the experience of culture. As a number of AIDS scholars have noted, the concept …