João Biehl is professor of anthropology at Princeton University. Torben Eskerod is an artist and freelance photographer based in Copenhagen. The two also collaborated on the award-winning book Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment.

Will 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 ...(展开全部)

Will 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 ...(展开全部)

João Biehl is professor of anthropology at Princeton University. Torben Eskerod is an artist and freelance photographer based in Copenhagen. The two also collaborated on the award-winning book Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment.

"The Will to Improve" is a remarkable account of development in action. Focusing on experts' attempts to improve landscapes and livelihoods in Indonesia, Tania Murray Li carefully exposes the practices that enable experts to diagnose problems and devise interventions, and the agency of people whose conduct is targeted for reform. Deftly integrating theory, ethnography, and hist...(展开全部)

In the short, turbulent history of AIDS research and treatment, the boundaries between scientist insiders and lay outsiders have been crisscrossed to a degree never before seen in medical history. Steven Epstein's astute and readable investigation focuses on the critical question of 'how certainty is constructed or deconstructed', leading us through the views of medical researc...(展开全部)

In the short, turbulent history of AIDS research and treatment, the boundaries between scientist insiders and lay outsiders have been crisscrossed to a degree never before seen in medical history. Steven Epstein's astute and readable investigation focuses on the critical question of 'how certainty is constructed or deconstructed', leading us through the views of medical researc...(展开全部)

July 4， 1976<br >NEW YORK HARBOR<br >Tall sails scraped the deep purple nigl~ as rockets burst， flared， and flourished<br >red， white， and blue over the stoic Statue of Liberty. The whole world was<br >watching， it seemed; the whole world was there. Ships from fifty-five nations had<br >poured sailors into Manhattan to join the throngs， counted in the millions， ...(展开全部)

By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the disease had spread across the nation, killing thousands of people and emerging as the greatest health crisis of the 20th century. America faced a troubling question: What happened? How was this epidemic allowed to spread so far before it was taken seriously? In answering these qu...(展开全部)

By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the disease had spread across the nation, killing thousands of people and emerging as the greatest health crisis of the 20th century. America faced a troubling question: What happened? How was this epidemic allowed to spread so far before it was taken seriously? In answering these qu...(展开全部)