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Author Fordham, Graham, author.

Title HIV/AIDS and the social consequences of untamed biomedicine : anthropological complicities / by Graham Fordham
Published New York : Routledge, 2015
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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge studies in anthropology ; 18
Routledge studies in anthropology ; 18.
Contents 1. Introduction : an orientation -- 2. The Thai AIDS epidemic and the failure of critical analysis -- 3. Constructing Thailand's AIDS epidemic with a "new" social science -- 4. Social science, HIV/AIDS, stigma, and discrimination -- 5. Biomedicine, social science research, and the stigmatising of the AIDS-affected : new perspectives from structural violence and social suffering -- 6. Thai AIDS research : structural violence, stigma, discrimination, and genocide-like state violence -- 7. Thailand's "good" response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic : a critical examination -- 8. An alternative perspective on the Thai response to AIDS control -- 9. Conclusion
Summary "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"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 26, 2014)
Subject HIV infections -- Thailand -- Epidemiology
Ethnology -- Thailand.
Ethnology.
Anthropology, Cultural
HIV Infections -- epidemiology
MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
Ethnology
HIV infections -- Epidemiology
SUBJECT Thailand
Subject Thailand
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317632740
1317632745
9781315757292
131575729X