Locating HIV/Aids and India

Cautionary Notes on the Globalization of Categories

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11261393
AutoresNiranjan S Karnik (0000-0001-7650-3008, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, autor de correspondencia), Niranjan Karnik (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Año2001
Volumen26
Número3
Páginas322-348
Fecha de publicación2001-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaScience Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/016224390102600304
OpenAlexW2134971182
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas18

HIV/AIDS can now be considered a pandemic as it affects all parts of the world. As attentive as scholars have been to the biomedical and epidemiological aspects of the disease, they have been slower to try to understand it as a disease of transnational significations or meanings. This article looks to the ways that the conceptual categories of HIV/AIDS came to India in the biomedical literature, the approaches that the media in the United States and India took in contending with these meanings, and how these categories travel globally in dominant and negotiated realms of discourse. Throughout this analysis, attention is paid to ways that high-risk groupings obscure alternative approaches based on understandings of the dynamics of poverty, history, gender, and culture. Finally, this article argues that critical approaches to science and medicine are essential to help produce a more complex science

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