HIV: Anthropological Complicities
Drawing on the case of HIV/AIDS in Thailand, this book examines how anthropological and other interpretative social science research has been utilized in modeling the AIDS epidemic, and in the design and implementation of interventions. It argues that much social science research has been complicit with the forces that generated the epidemic and with the social control agendas of the state, and that as such it has increased the weight of structural violence bearing upon the afflicted. The book …
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- Full title :HIV : Anthropological Complicities / AIDS and the Social Consequences of Untamed Biomedicine
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Drawing on the case of HIV/AIDS in Thailand, this book examines how anthropological and other interpretative social science research has been utilized in modeling the AIDS epidemic, and in the design and implementation of interventions. It argues that much social science research has been complicit with the forces that generated the epidemic and with the social control agendas of the state, and that as such it has increased the weight of structural violence bearing upon the afflicted. The book also questions claims of Thai AIDS control success, arguing that these can only be made at the cost of ...
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- Publication Date:2014
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Taylor and Francis
- Place of Publication:Florence
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2014
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- Description:1 online resource (401 Seiten)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781138797222, 1138797227, 9781317632740, 1317632745
- oclc:ocn923614648
- LC Classification:RA643.8 .H384 2014
- Dewey Decimal:614.599392009593
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