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HIV/AIDS and the Social Consequences of Untamed Biomedicine - Anthropological Complicities (Hardcover)
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HIV/AIDS and the Social Consequences of Untamed Biomedicine - Anthropological Complicities (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology
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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
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.
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