HIV is God's Blessing: Rehabilitating Morality in Neoliberal Russia
Author:   Jarrett Zigon
Publisher:   University of California Press
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9780520267626


Pages:   280
Publication Date:   16 December 2010
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Jarrett Zigon
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780520267626


ISBN 10:   0520267621
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   16 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Backgrounds 1. HIV, Drug Use, and the Politics of Indifference 2. The Church's Rehabilitation Program 3. The Russian Orthodox Church, HIV, and Injecting Drug Use 4. Moral and Ethical Assemblages 5. Synergeia and Simfoniia: Orthodox Morality, Human Rights, and the State 6. Working on the Self Part II: Practices 7. Enchurchment 8. Cultivating a Normal Life 9. Normal Sociality: Obshchenie and Controlling Emotions 10. Disciplining Responsibility: Labor and Gender Some Closing Words Notes References Index

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A provocative and clearly argued work. --Somatosphere This is a fascinating book on an important topic. --Slavic Review


"""A provocative and clearly argued work."" Somatosphere ""This is a fascinating book on an important topic."" -- Erin Koch Slavic Review"


A provocative and clearly argued work. --Somatosphere


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Jarrett Zigon is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Morality: An Anthropological Perspective and Making the New Post-Soviet Person: Moral Experience in Contemporary Moscow.

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