Governing the Global Clinic: HIV and the Legal Transformation of Medicine

by Carol A. Heimer

A deep examination of how new, legalistic norms affected the trajectory of global HIV care and altered the practice of medicine.

HIV emerged in the world at a time when medicine and healthcare were undergoing two major transformations: globalization and a turn toward legally inflected, rule-based ways of doing things. It accelerated both trends. While pestilence and disease are generally considered the domain of biological sciences...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226838641
• ISBN13: 9780226838649
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.