{"product_id":"will-to-live-aids-therapies-and-the-politics-of-survival-information","title":"Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival (In-Formation)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWill to Live tells how Brazil  against all odds  became the first developing country to universalize access to life-saving AIDS therapies--a breakthrough made possible by an unexpected alliance of activists  government reformers  development agencies  and the pharmaceutical industry. But anthropologist Joo Biehl also tells why this policy  hailed as a model worldwide  has been so difficult to implement among poor Brazilians with HIV\/AIDS  who are often stigmatized as noncompliant or untreatable  becoming invisible to the public. More broadly  Biehl examines the political economy of pharmaceuticals that lies behind large-scale treatment rollouts  revealing the possibilities and inequalities that come with a magic bullet approach to health care.  By moving back and forth between the institutions shaping the Brazilian response to AIDS and the people affected by the disease  Biehl has created a book of unusual vividness  scope  and detail. At the core of Will to Live is a group of AIDS patients--unemployed  homeless  involved with prostitution and drugs--that established a makeshift health service. Biehl chronicled the personal lives of these people for over ten years and Torben Eskerod represents them here in more than one hundred stark photographs.  Ethnography  social medicine  and art merge in this unique book  illuminating the care and agency needed to extend life amid perennial violence. Full of lessons for the future  Will to Live promises to have a lasting influence in the social sciences and in the theory and practice of global public health.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44962949759029,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691143854","price":28.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691143859.jpg?v=1770401375","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/will-to-live-aids-therapies-and-the-politics-of-survival-information","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}