Kearns, Gerard
(2017)
HIV, AIDS and the global imaginary.
In:
Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries.
Routledge.
ISBN 9781138852389
Abstract
The syndrome that later received the name AIDS was first announced by a
communication
published in the USA by the Centres for Disease Control (CDC):
‘In the period October 1980–May 1981, 5 young men, all active homosexuals,
were treated for biopsy-confirmed
Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
[PCP]’
(CDC, 1981). Looking principally
at the epidemiological
discussion
of AIDS
within the USA, I have noted the persistent
homosexualisation
of the condition
and examined the spatial metaphors
through which this prejudice
was sustained
(Kearns, 2016). In this chapter, I want instead to examine how AIDS has been
conceptualised
as an issue of global health. I will describe the geographical
imaginary
of the first attempts to conceptualise
AIDS as an issue of global health.
I will outline some of the consequences of this global imaginary
for AIDS
policies, both in the USA and in South Africa.
| Item Type: |
Book Section
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| Keywords: |
HIV; AIDS; global imaginary; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography |
| Item ID: |
9176 |
| Depositing User: |
Gerry Kearns
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| Date Deposited: |
22 Jan 2018 15:21 |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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