Archetypes of Infection

People with HIV/Aids in the Australian Press in the Mid 1990s

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2252015
AutoresD Lupton (0000-0003-2658-4430, Charles Sturt University, autor correspondente)
Ano1999
Volume21
Fascículo1
Páginas37-53
Data de publicação1999-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9566.t01-1-00141
OpenAlexW1985487622
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas30
Referências citadas14

This article presents the findings of an interpretive analysis of the representation of people with HIV/AIDS in the Australian press in a three-year period between 1994 and 1996. Three major archetypes of people with HIV/AIDS dominating reports - the 'AIDS victim', the 'AIDS survivor' and the 'AIDS carrier'- are discussed for what they reveal not only about contemporary approaches to HIV/AIDS but also about more general notions of morality and self-control related to the body, medicine, health and illness. It is argued that these dominant archetypes inevitably draw from previous representations of HIV/AIDS, but at the same time demonstrate evidence of changing discourses and meanings. One feature of particular interest is that moral judgements related to people with HIV/AIDS presented in these news texts appear to be based less on how they acquired the virus than the manner in which they deport themselves once infected

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