In between life and death: decision-making of HIV+ mothers in Lesotho
In: Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung, 61
Prologue 11. - Introduction 13. - 1.1 Aim and Outline of the Book 19. - Research at the Intersection of Debates 23. - 2.1 Medicine of the North, Medicine of the South 24. - 2.2 Medicalisation of Life 30. - 2.3 Managing Sickness, Managing Uncertainty 35. - 2.4 Inductive Approach to Authority and Resistance 39. - In Sickness and in Health: Biographical Studies 43. - 3.1 Background of Selecting Informants 43. - 3.2 Three Observers and Four Stories 49. - 3.3 Researcher's Dilemma: Mediating in Conflict Situations 53. - Shifts and Changes in Uncertain Times 59. - 4.1 Historical Overview: Resistance and Resilience 59. - 4.2 Basotho Cosmology and Societal Structure 62. - 4.3 Shifts and Changes in Production 65. - 4.4 Empowerment of Women 68. - 4.5 Young Women's Lives in Urban Lesotho 69. - 4.6 The Dominant Party: The Grammar of Social Interaction 78. - 4.7 The Subordinate Party: Silent Agents Who Keep Face 83. - 4.8 Marriage Proposal as Individual Decision 87. - 4.9 The Female Way of a Love Proposal 90. - Pregnancy: Navigating Between Conflicting Demands 95. - 5.1 Parental Authority and Ancestral Discontent 97. - 5.2 Teaching and Learning about Pregnancy 118. - 5.3 Female Clients in Biomedical Care 121. - 5.3.4 Counselling to the Point of Accepting 131. - 5.4 Authoritative Knowledge and the Control of Misfortune 134. - Delivery: "In between life and death" 143. - 6.1 Shifting Places 144. - 6.2 Option 1: The Safe Sanctuary 150. - 6.3 Option 2: Rural Health Centres 159. - 6.4 Option 3: Mafeteng Hospital Maternity Ward 162. - 6.5 Option 4: Giving Birth at the Traditional Clinic 175. - Options for Safe Infant Feeding 183. - 7.1 Global and Local Arguments in Infant Feeding 185. - 7.2 Social (Re-)integration of Mother and Child 195. - 7.3 Biomedical Options for HIV-positive Mothers 204. - 7.4 MaMapeli's Socially Safe Practice: Exclusive Breastfeeding 210. - 7.5 Leshome's Informed Decision-Making: Exclusive Replacement Feeding 213. - 7.6 Tselela's Struggle with Tradition, HIV and