List of Illustrations . . ix
Preface . . xi

Introduction: Bringing Peripheries to the Center . . 1
1 The Meandering Road to Modernity . . 27
2 Manhood, Migration, and Heroin . . 51
3 Multivocal Drug Control . . 81
4 Contentious Individuality on the Rise . . 104
5 Failed State AIDS Intervention . . 130
6 AIDS and Its Global Stigmatization . . 162
Conclusion . . 187

Notes . . 199
Bibliography . . 207
Index . . 225