HIV/AIDS and the social consequences of untamed biomedicine : anthropological complicities
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HIV/AIDS and the social consequences of untamed biomedicine : anthropological complicities
(Routledge studies in Anthropology, 18)
Routledge, 2015
- : hardback
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-376) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: An Orientation 2. The Thai AIDS Epidemic and the Failure of Critical Analysis 3. Constructing Thailand's AIDS Epidemic with a "New" Social Science 4. Social Science, HIV/AIDS, Stigma and Discrimination 5. Biomedicine, Social Science Research and the Stigmatising of the AIDS Affected: New Perspectives from Structural Violence and Social Suffering 6. Thai AIDS Research: Structural Violence, Stigma, Discrimination, and Genocide-Like State Violence 7. Thailand's "Good" Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: A Critical Examination 8. An Alternative Perspective on the Thai Response to AIDS Control 9. Conclusion. Postscript.
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