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dc.contributor.authorPienaar, Kiran
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T13:07:21Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T13:07:21Z
dc.date.created2016-01-03T20:00:13Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationPienaar, K. 2015. Rethinking the Poverty-disease Nexus: the Case of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Journal of Medical Humanities. 38 (3): pp. 249–266.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28777
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10912-015-9369-x
dc.description.abstract

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.

dc.titleRethinking the Poverty-disease Nexus: the Case of HIV/AIDS in South Africa
dc.typeJournal Article
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dcterms.source.endPage18
dcterms.source.issn1041-3545
dcterms.source.titleJournal of Medical Humanities
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The final publication is available at Springer via http://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-015-9369-x

curtin.departmentNational Drug Research Institute (NDRI)
curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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