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Auteur(s) : Fordham, Graham
Titre(s) : HIV/AIDS and the social consequences of untamed biomedicine [Texte imprimé] : anthropological complicities / Graham Fordham
Publication : New York : Routledge, 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xvi, 384 pages) ; 24 cm
Collection : Routledge studies in anthropology ; 18
Lien à la collection : Routledge studies in anthropology
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-376) and index
"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 excluding categories such as intravenous drug users, the incarcerated,
and homosexuals, who continue to experience extraordinarily high levels of levels
of HIV infection. Considered deviant and undeserving, these persons have deliberately
been excluded from harm reduction programs. Overall, this work argues for the untapped
potential of anthropological research in the health field, a confident anthropology
rooted in ethnography and a critical reflexivity. Crucially, it argues that in context
of interdisciplinary collaborations, anthropological research must refuse relegation
to the status of an adjunct discipline, and must be free epistemologically and methodologically
from the universalizing assumptions and practices of biomedicine"
Sujet(s) : Sida -- Société -- Thaïlande
Anthropologie -- Thaïlande
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781138797222 (hardback). - ISBN 1138797227 (hardback). - ISBN 9781315757292
(erroné) (ebk)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb438855177
Notice n° :
FRBNF43885517
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