Document 0046
 DOCN  M9480046
 TI    The politics of AIDS. Introduction.
 DT    9410
 AU    Singer M; Hispanic Health Council, Hartford, CT 06106.
 SO    Soc Sci Med. 1994 May;38(10):1321-4. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/94294835
 AB    From its first designation as a gay plague, HIV/AIDS has been a heavily
       politicized disease, a disease that has fractured official standard
       operating procedures in science, medicine, public health and governance.
       In many ways, AIDS helped to expose a battleground of contested
       interests while emerging as an arena for both the re-assertion of
       'traditional' (i.e. dominant) values as well as rebellion against the
       traditional politics of exclusion and privilege. Yet the politics of
       AIDS has remained an understudied domain. This set of papers seeks to
       overcome this neglect by exploring underlying political dimensions of
       the AIDS pandemic, especially in the way the pandemic has been
       constructed by epidemiology, biomedicine, and medical anthropology.
       Authored by a group of medical anthropologists and an anthropologically
       oriented political scientist, the papers provide a jarring glimpse at
       the profound influence of society on health and disease.
 DE    *Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/EPIDEMIOLOGY  *Anthropology,
       Cultural  *Attitude to Health  Ethnic Groups  Homosexuality  Human
       Morals  *Politics  *Prejudice  Public Health  Shame  Social Dominance
       *Social Values  Sociology, Medical  JOURNAL ARTICLE  REVIEW  REVIEW,
       TUTORIAL

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