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HIV/AIDS and the Social Consequences of Untamed Biomedicine: Anthropological Complicities book cover

1st Edition

HIV/AIDS and the Social Consequences of Untamed Biomedicine Anthropological Complicities

By Graham Fordham Copyright 2015
400 Pages
by Routledge

400 Pages
by Routledge

400 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

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.

Biography

Graham Fordham is a social anthropologist who has extensive experience researching the Thai and other Southeast Asian AIDS epidemics. He currently teaches in the College of Medicine, Biology and Environment at the Australian National University in Canberra.

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