Rethinking the Poverty-disease Nexus: the Case of HIV/AIDS in South Africa
| dc.contributor.author | Pienaar, Kiran | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-30T13:07:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-01-30T13:07:21Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2016-01-03T20:00:13Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Pienaar, 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.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28777 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/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.title | Rethinking the Poverty-disease Nexus: the Case of HIV/AIDS in South Africa | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | |
| dcterms.source.startPage | 1 | |
| dcterms.source.endPage | 18 | |
| dcterms.source.issn | 1041-3545 | |
| dcterms.source.title | Journal of Medical Humanities | |
| curtin.note |
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| curtin.department | National Drug Research Institute (NDRI) | |
| curtin.accessStatus | Open access |