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STRUGGLING WITH AN EPIDEMIC. THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF HIV AND AIDS AMONG LOW-INCOME PATIENTS IN KENYA

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Аннотация к книге "STRUGGLING WITH AN EPIDEMIC. THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF HIV AND AIDS AMONG LOW-INCOME PATIENTS IN KENYA"

This thesis examines how lay discourses have been juxtaposed with limited biomedical knowledge to produce social meaningful knowledge and behavioral practices that only fuel rather than limit the rapid spread of HIV in Kenya. Within these discourses, HIV carries a host of negative symbolic meanings, and is often socially constructed and experienced as a disease of the morally, socially and physically blemished persons. Individuals diagnosed with HIV are therefore to be managed through isolation...

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Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011
ISBN: 978-3-6391-9576-7
Объём: 256 страниц
Масса: 411 г
Размеры(высота, ширина, толщина), см: 23 x 16 x 2

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