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Rethinking the poverty-disease nexus: the case of HIV/AIDS in South Africa

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posted on 2017-09-01, 00:00 authored by Kiran PienaarKiran Pienaar
While it is well-established that poverty and disease are intimately connected, the nature of this connection and the role of poverty in disease causation remains contested in scientific and social studies of disease. Using the case of HIV/AIDS in South Africa and drawing on a theoretically grounded analysis, this paper reconceptualises disease and poverty as ontologically entangled. In the context of the South African HIV epidemic, this rethinking of the poverty-disease dynamic enables an account of how social forces such as poverty become embodied in the very substance of disease to produce ontologies of HIV/AIDS unique to South Africa.

History

Journal

Journal of medical humanities

Volume

38

Pagination

249 - 266

Publisher

Springer

Location

New York, N.Y.

ISSN

1041-3545

eISSN

1573-3645

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal