The Time of AIDS
Social Analysis, Theory, and Method
1st Edition
Published on 9. March 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-8039-4373-5 (ISBN)
Description
How is the concept of culture relevant to the study of AIDS? How can social science methods be used to uncover the epidemiology of the disease and how can social scientists deploy what they learn to help solve the problems it poses?
This volume explores and provides provocative insights into these three vital questions. By examining research on various cultural groups and in different countries, the authors offer insight into how to identify the distinct ways different groups respond to the threat of the disease. They demonstrate that a close look at the culture and psychology of a society can inspire effective ways of education, intervention and arrest of the transmission of the virus.
This volume explores and provides provocative insights into these three vital questions. By examining research on various cultural groups and in different countries, the authors offer insight into how to identify the distinct ways different groups respond to the threat of the disease. They demonstrate that a close look at the culture and psychology of a society can inspire effective ways of education, intervention and arrest of the transmission of the virus.
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Content
Preface - Gilbert Herdt
PART ONE: SOCIAL HISTORY AND REPRESENTATION
Introduction - Gilbert Herdt
Epidemics and Researchers - John H Gagnon
AIDS and the Practice of Social Studies
AIDS - Virginia Berridge
History and Contemporary History
AIDS, HIV, and the Cultural Construction of Reality - Paula A Treichler
PART TWO: METHOD AND THEORY IN WESTERN SOCIETY
Sex, Lies and Ethnography - Paul R Abramson
Mapping Terra Incognita - Ralph Bolton
Sex Research for AIDS Prevention - An Urgent Agenda for the 1990s
Anthropological Witnessing for African Americans - Ernest Quimby
Power, Responsibility, and Choice in the Age of AIDS
The Implications of Constructionist Theory for Social Research on the AIDS Epidemic Among Gay Men - Martin P Levine
`IV Drug Users' and `Sex Partners' - Stephanie Kane and Theresa Mason
The Limits of Epidemiological Categories and the Ethnography of Risk
PART THREE: CROSS-CULTURAL STUDIES
Sexual Diversity, Cultural Analysis, and AIDS Education in Brazil - Richard G Parker
Use of Ethnosexual Data on Men of Mexican Origin for HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs - Joseph M Carrier and J Raul Magana
Women at Risk - Brooke Grundfest Schoepf
Case Studies from Zaire
New Disorder, Old Dilemmas - Paul Farmer
AIDS and Anthropology in Haiti
Knowledge and Action in the Shadow of AIDS - Shirley Lindenbaum
PART ONE: SOCIAL HISTORY AND REPRESENTATION
Introduction - Gilbert Herdt
Epidemics and Researchers - John H Gagnon
AIDS and the Practice of Social Studies
AIDS - Virginia Berridge
History and Contemporary History
AIDS, HIV, and the Cultural Construction of Reality - Paula A Treichler
PART TWO: METHOD AND THEORY IN WESTERN SOCIETY
Sex, Lies and Ethnography - Paul R Abramson
Mapping Terra Incognita - Ralph Bolton
Sex Research for AIDS Prevention - An Urgent Agenda for the 1990s
Anthropological Witnessing for African Americans - Ernest Quimby
Power, Responsibility, and Choice in the Age of AIDS
The Implications of Constructionist Theory for Social Research on the AIDS Epidemic Among Gay Men - Martin P Levine
`IV Drug Users' and `Sex Partners' - Stephanie Kane and Theresa Mason
The Limits of Epidemiological Categories and the Ethnography of Risk
PART THREE: CROSS-CULTURAL STUDIES
Sexual Diversity, Cultural Analysis, and AIDS Education in Brazil - Richard G Parker
Use of Ethnosexual Data on Men of Mexican Origin for HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs - Joseph M Carrier and J Raul Magana
Women at Risk - Brooke Grundfest Schoepf
Case Studies from Zaire
New Disorder, Old Dilemmas - Paul Farmer
AIDS and Anthropology in Haiti
Knowledge and Action in the Shadow of AIDS - Shirley Lindenbaum