‘Transplanting Hope’: Experimental Stem Cell Therapy and the Political Economy of an HIV Cure

Abstract In this article, I use a socio-anthropological perspective to analyze the configurations and developments of the first five cases of an HIV “cure” or “long-term remission”. These unprecedented results in the history of medicine were achieved through experimental stem cell transplants, whose...

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Main Author: Kris Herik de Oliveira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Antropologia 2024-10-01
Series:Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1809-43412024000100506&lng=en&tlng=en
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