Teaching AIDS
The Cultural Politics of HIV Disease in India
Authors: Das, Dilip K.
Free Preview- 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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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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AIDS Awareness and Behaviour Change: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Pages 1-17
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Pedagogy, Power and the Subject of Disease Control
Pages 19-48
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Incipient Pedagogy I: AIDS in the National Media
Pages 49-72
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Incipient Pedagogy (II): AIDS Narratives
Pages 73-111
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AIDS and the Enigma of Law
Pages 113-147
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Teaching AIDS
- Book Subtitle
- The Cultural Politics of HIV Disease in India
- Authors
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- Dilip K. Das
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer Singapore
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-981-13-6120-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-981-13-6120-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-981-13-6119-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 229
- Number of Illustrations
- 5 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
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