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Document 0043
DOCN M9480043
TI The boundaries of the self and the unhealthy other: reflections on
health, culture and AIDS.
DT 9410
AU Crawford R; University of Washington at Tacoma 98402.
SO Soc Sci Med. 1994 May;38(10):1347-65. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
MED/94294838
AB Most accounts of the cultural stigmas associated with AIDS have not
adequately considered the meanings through which the stigmatizing self
imagines his/her difference from the stigmatized other. This paper
argues that 'health' is a key concept in the fashioning of identity for
the modern and contemporary middle class and that the 'unhealthy' come
to be represented as the other of this self. 'Healthy' and 'unhealthy,'
however, must be understood both in their biomedical meanings and in
their implicit metaphorical meanings. The 'unhealthy,' 'contagious,'
'sexually deviant,' and 'addicted-minority' other--all condensed in the
negative symbolism of AIDS--have become images which are mobilized as
part of a cultural politics of reconstructing the self in conformity
with intensified mandates for self-control. The expulsion of 'unhealthy'
meanings from the self, an act of patrolling the borders of identity,
finds its projected physical location in the figure of the person with
HIV-AIDS.
DE Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*ETHNOLOGY/PREVENTION &
CONTROL/*PSYCHOLOGY Anomie *Attitude to Health/ETHNOLOGY
Consciousness *Culture Human Identity Crisis Internal-External
Control Politics *Prejudice *Self Concept *Sick Role Social Change
Social Control, Informal *Symbolism (Psychology) JOURNAL ARTICLE
REVIEW REVIEW, TUTORIAL
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).