| Titre : | Aids, race and the limits of science. (2005) |
| Auteurs : | MARSHALL (Wende-Elizabeth) : USA. Department of Anthropology. University of Virginia. Charlottesville. VA. |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Social science and medicine (vol. 60, n° 11, 2005) |
| Pagination : | 2515-2525 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | Sida ; Virose ; Infection ; Race ; Sciences ; Discours ; Structure sociale ; Etats Unis ; Amérique ; Sciences humaines ; Monde ; Epidémie ; Immunopathologie ; Amérique du Nord |
| Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS ISR0xFWt. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. In the US, HIV is understood as the virus that causes AIDS, the root of a disease syndrome perceived to indicate an immune system that has ceased to function. These understandings reflect the unquestioned hegemony of Euro/American scientific knowledge, a hegemony that precludes alternative interpretations of life and death, health and disease. This paper argues that HIV/AIDS is more complicated than biomedicine allows, and that the "over-medicalization" of treatment and prevention efforts obscures the significant socio-cultural and political-economic realities that shape the global pandemic, including conceptions of race. The paper specifically focuses on the discourses of bio-and socio-pathology that link African diasporic communities around the globe, and which often seamlessly articulate with structural locations, producing a coherent narrative in which social and moral positions justify and substantiate one another. The analysis here occurs on both these levels : the discursive and the structural. If we are to understand the complex relationships that form the AIDS epidemic, the disciplinary lines imagined between scientific paradigms and the clinical focus on the individual body on one hand, and the social sciences and humanities disciplines on the other, must be breached. If what we call AIDS is a socio-cultural and political-economic phenomenon with biological manifestations, then it is essential that the insights of the social sciences and humanities be brought to bear on finding solutions to the epidemic. |
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