Journal article
Two regimes of HIV/AIDS: The MMWR and the socio-political construction of HIV/AIDS as a "black disease
Sociology of health & illness, v 39(7), pp 1068-1082
01 Sep 2017
PMID: 28276069
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Abstract
Over the course of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, black Americans have become a central target of US public health prevention efforts. And today, HIV/AIDS is understood to disproportionately affect black Americans. This markedly contrasts with knowledge about the disease and efforts to prevent it in the first decade of the epidemic in the US, when expert and lay understandings and responses centred on white gay males. This article demonstrates that explaining these historical reversals as purely reflective of epidemiological data - or best knowledge available - is insufficient. Drawing on the concept disease regimes and utilising a discursive analysis of epidemiological results and editorial commentary published from 1981 to 1994 in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR), this article argues for a socio-political explanation for the changing colour of HIV/AIDS. That is, it scrutinises institutional and discursive practices that within the HIV/AIDS prevention field and disease discourse constituted a regime of black American exclusion' (1981-1992) and a regime of black American inclusion (1993-present day).
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- Title
- Two regimes of HIV/AIDS: The MMWR and the socio-political construction of HIV/AIDS as a "black disease
- Creators
- Kevin M. Moseby - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Sociology of health & illness, v 39(7), pp 1068-1082
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 15
- Grant note
- University of California; University of California System
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Sociology
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000410766100006
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85014973813
- Other Identifier
- 991019168495204721
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