Treating AIDS : politics of difference, paradox of prevention / Thurka Sangaramoorthy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sangaramoorthy, Thurka, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects.

AIDS (Disease).

Health services accessibility--United States.

Health services accessibility.

Social status--Health aspects--United States.

Social status.

Haitians--United States--Social conditions.

Haitians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Routledge, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There is an inherently powerful and complex paradox underlying HIV/AIDS prevention-between the focus on collective advocacy mobilized to combat global HIV/AIDS and the staggeringly disproportionate rates of HIV/AIDS in many places. In Treating AIDS, Thurka Sangaramoorthy examines the everyday practices of HIV/AIDS prevention in the United States from the perspective of AIDS experts and Haitian immigrants in South Florida. Although there is worldwide emphasis on the universality of HIV/AIDS as a social, political, economic, and biomedical problem, developments in HIV/AIDS prevention are rooted in and focused exclusively on disparities in HIV/AIDS morbidity and mortality framed through the rubric of race, ethnicity, and nationality. Everyone is at equal risk for contracting HIV/AIDS, Sangaramoorthy notes, but the ways in which people experience and manage that risk-and the disease itself-is highly dependent on race, ethnic identity, sexuality, gender, immigration status, and other notions of "difference." Sangaramoorthy documents in detail the work of AIDS prevention programs and their effect on the health and well-being of Haitians, a transnational community long plagued by the stigma of being stereotyped in public discourse as disease carriers. By tracing the ways in which public knowledge of AIDS prevention science circulates from sites of surveillance and regulation, to various clinics and hospitals, to the social worlds embraced by this immigrant community, she ultimately demonstrates the ways in which AIDS prevention programs help to reinforce categories of individual and collective difference, and how they continue to sustain the persistent and pernicious idea of race and ethnicity as risk factors for the disease.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

1. Treating Us, Treating Them

2. Treating the Numbers: HIV/AIDS Surveillance, Subjectivity, and Risk

3. Treating Culture: The Making of Experts and Communities

4. Treating Citizens: The Promise of Positive Living

5. Treating the Nation: Health Disparities and the Politics of Difference

6. Treating the West: Afterthoughts on Future Directions

Notes

References

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8135-6374-7

OCLC:

878405901