Overview
The first book on AIDS awareness campaigns in India that examines them from a critical cultural studies perspective
Provides a detailed historical account of responses to the AIDS epidemic in India since its onset in 1986
Provides a broad understanding of health education in terms of embodiment, ideology, governance and subject formation
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book approaches the subject of AIDS pedagogy by analysing the complex links between representation or discourse, ideology, power relations and practices of self, understood from the perspective of embodiment. While there is a fairly large amount of literature available on the social, economic, psychological and policy dimensions of the epidemic, there is virtually nothing on its cultural politics. As a critique of the national AIDS pedagogy, this book attempts to fill the gap. It addresses important issues in cultural studies, body studies, medical humanities, disease control policy and behaviour change communication strategies. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of culture studies and social sciences, especially social anthropology, community health, health management. and gender studies.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dilip Kumar Das is Professor of Cultural Studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at The English & Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. He is a recipient of a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA and a South Asia Regional Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council, New York. His research area is interdisciplinary body studies, and he has published essays on the social dimensions of disease.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Teaching AIDS
Book Subtitle: The Cultural Politics of HIV Disease in India
Authors: Dilip K. Das
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6120-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-6119-7Published: 04 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-6120-3Published: 18 February 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 229
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Studies, Medical Sociology, Cultural Anthropology