Document 0045
 DOCN  M9480045
 TI    The impact of HIV/AIDS on concepts relating to risk and culture within
       British community epidemiology: candidates or targets for prevention.
 DT    9410
 AU    Frankenberg RJ; Keele University, Staffordshire, U.K.
 SO    Soc Sci Med. 1994 May;38(10):1325-35. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/94294836
 AB    The social and cultural responses to the AIDS/HIV epidemic focus
       attention both on the limitations of reification in biomedicine and on
       the deficiencies of many interpretations of culture in anthropology.
       Within clinical medicine the focus on disease and isolated aspects of
       the patient's somatic body alienates the patient's person, the body
       incarnate. AIDS/HIV infection reveals deficiencies in much
       epidemiological theorising insofar as it is merely regarded as either
       making possible or carrying out interventions on the health practice of
       individual others whether practitioners or patients. It also draws
       attention to the gap between the site of research and knowledge
       production about the abstract characteristics of populations and the
       application of this knowledge to the concrete reality of patients in the
       world. Reifications of culture by anthropologists themselves may confirm
       rather than weaken clinical reifications of disease and epidemiological
       reifications of risk group. Styles of epidemiology in Britain are
       examined in relation to anthropological writings to see the extent to
       which both need to overcome these practical and theoretical problems.
 DE    *Anthropology, Cultural  *Attitude to Health/ETHNOLOGY  *Cultural
       Characteristics  *Epidemiologic Methods  Forecasting  Great
       Britain/EPIDEMIOLOGY  Health Priorities  Human  HIV
       Infections/*EPIDEMIOLOGY/*PREVENTION & CONTROL  Mass Screening
       Prejudice  Primary Health Care  *Primary Prevention  Risk Factors
       JOURNAL ARTICLE  REVIEW  REVIEW, TUTORIAL

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