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Document 0046
DOCN M9480046
TI The politics of AIDS. Introduction.
DT 9410
AU Singer M; Hispanic Health Council, Hartford, CT 06106.
SO Soc Sci Med. 1994 May;38(10):1321-4. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
MED/94294835
AB From its first designation as a gay plague, HIV/AIDS has been a heavily
politicized disease, a disease that has fractured official standard
operating procedures in science, medicine, public health and governance.
In many ways, AIDS helped to expose a battleground of contested
interests while emerging as an arena for both the re-assertion of
'traditional' (i.e. dominant) values as well as rebellion against the
traditional politics of exclusion and privilege. Yet the politics of
AIDS has remained an understudied domain. This set of papers seeks to
overcome this neglect by exploring underlying political dimensions of
the AIDS pandemic, especially in the way the pandemic has been
constructed by epidemiology, biomedicine, and medical anthropology.
Authored by a group of medical anthropologists and an anthropologically
oriented political scientist, the papers provide a jarring glimpse at
the profound influence of society on health and disease.
DE *Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/EPIDEMIOLOGY *Anthropology,
Cultural *Attitude to Health Ethnic Groups Homosexuality Human
Morals *Politics *Prejudice Public Health Shame Social Dominance
*Social Values Sociology, Medical JOURNAL ARTICLE REVIEW REVIEW,
TUTORIAL
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).