AIDS Alibis: Sex, Drugs, and Crime in the Americas

AIDS Alibis: Sex, Drugs, and Crime in the Americas

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Book Description
AIDS Alibis tackles the cultural landscape upon which AIDS, often accompanied by poverty, drug addiction, and crime, proliferates on a global scale. Stephanie Kane layers stories of individuals and events—from Chicago to Belize City, to cyberspace—to illustrate the paths of HIV infection and the effects of environment, government intervention, and social mores. Linking ordinary yet kindred lives in communities around the globe, Kane challenges the assumptions underlying the use of police and courts to solve health problems.

The stories reveal the dynamics that determine how the policy decisions of white-collar health-care professionals actually play out in real life. By focusing on life-changing social problems, the narratives highlight the contradictions between public health and criminal law. Look at how HIV has transformed our social consciousness, from intimate touch to institutional outreach. But, Kane argues, these changes are dwarfed by the United States' refusal to stop the war on drugs, in effect misdirecting resources and awareness.

AIDS Alibis combines empirical and interpretive methods in a path-breaking attempt to recognize the extent to which coercive institutional practices are implicated in HIV transmission patterns. Kane shows how the virus feeds on the politics of inequality and indifference, even as it exploits the human need for intimacy and release. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From the Publisher
A fresh, astute means for debating the issues connecting the AIDS pandemic to government policy and crime in the Americas --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

AIDS Alibis: Sex, Drugs, and Crime in the Americas

AIDS Alibis: Sex, Drugs, and Crime in the Americas,Stephanie C. Kane,Temple University Press,156639628X,AIDS & HIV,AIDS (Disease),America,Diet / Health / Fitness,Health Care Issues,Medical,Popular Culture - General,Public Policy - General,Social aspects,Sociology

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