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Document 0045
DOCN M9480045
TI The impact of HIV/AIDS on concepts relating to risk and culture within
British community epidemiology: candidates or targets for prevention.
DT 9410
AU Frankenberg RJ; Keele University, Staffordshire, U.K.
SO Soc Sci Med. 1994 May;38(10):1325-35. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
MED/94294836
AB The social and cultural responses to the AIDS/HIV epidemic focus
attention both on the limitations of reification in biomedicine and on
the deficiencies of many interpretations of culture in anthropology.
Within clinical medicine the focus on disease and isolated aspects of
the patient's somatic body alienates the patient's person, the body
incarnate. AIDS/HIV infection reveals deficiencies in much
epidemiological theorising insofar as it is merely regarded as either
making possible or carrying out interventions on the health practice of
individual others whether practitioners or patients. It also draws
attention to the gap between the site of research and knowledge
production about the abstract characteristics of populations and the
application of this knowledge to the concrete reality of patients in the
world. Reifications of culture by anthropologists themselves may confirm
rather than weaken clinical reifications of disease and epidemiological
reifications of risk group. Styles of epidemiology in Britain are
examined in relation to anthropological writings to see the extent to
which both need to overcome these practical and theoretical problems.
DE *Anthropology, Cultural *Attitude to Health/ETHNOLOGY *Cultural
Characteristics *Epidemiologic Methods Forecasting Great
Britain/EPIDEMIOLOGY Health Priorities Human HIV
Infections/*EPIDEMIOLOGY/*PREVENTION & CONTROL Mass Screening
Prejudice Primary Health Care *Primary Prevention Risk Factors
JOURNAL ARTICLE REVIEW REVIEW, TUTORIAL
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).