Spinning blood into gold: science, sex work and HIV-2 in Senegal

Through ethnography, this dissertation chronicles how a West African variant of HIV, known as HIV-2, emerged as a knowable entity. It examines how a nation like Senegal, which exists at the margins of capitalism and the periphery of the biomedical knowledge empire, has come to occupy a central plac...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gilbert, Hannah
Other Authors: Vinh-Kim Nguyen (Supervisor)
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: McGill University 2010
Subjects:
Online Access:http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=92180