Treating AIDS : Politics of Difference, Paradox of Prevention.
Title:
Treating AIDS : Politics of Difference, Paradox of Prevention.
Author:
Sangaramoorthy, Thurka.
ISBN:
9780813563749
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (198 pages)
Contents:
Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Treating Us, Treating Them -- 2. Treating the Numbers: HIV/AIDS Surveillance, Subjectivity, and Risk -- 3. Treating Culture: The Making of Experts and Communities -- 4. Treating Citizens: The Promise of Positive Living -- 5. Treating the Nation: Health Disparities and the Politics of Difference -- 6. Treating the West: Afterthoughts on Future Directions -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author.
Abstract:
In Treating AIDS, Thurka Sangaramoorthy examines the everyday practices of HIV/AIDS prevention in the United States from the perspective of AIDS experts and Haitian immigrants in south Florida. Using in-depth ethnographic data, she underscores the difference between the global response to this public health crisis-where everyone is implicated as a potential carrier of risk-and the uncontested existence of racial and ethnic disparities in HIV/AIDS rates, access to treatment and care, and, especially, the stigma borne by carriers of the disease.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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