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Graham Fordham - New Look at Thai Aids - 9781845452339 - V9781845452339
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New Look at Thai Aids

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Description for New Look at Thai Aids paperback. For eighteen years, Thailand's HIV/AIDS was routinely depicted as the world's fastest moving AIDS epidemic. This work takes a look at the development of AIDS and at the analyses. It concludes that the "problem" of Thai AIDS has been constructed in order to legitimate specific forms of gender and class-based interventions. Series: Fertility, Reproduction & Sexuality. Num Pages: bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FMT; JFFH2. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UU) Undergraduate. .

Following the detection of the first HIV infections in the early 1980s, by the 1990s Thailand was routinely depicted as having the world’s fastest moving HIV/AIDS epidemic. However, by the early 2000’s the bulk of scholarly and medical AIDS literature portrayed the epidemic as being largely under control, and claimed that Thai AIDS prevention efforts during the 1990s had been successful. Based on long-term ethnographic research conducted in Northern Thailand this book makes an in-depth study of the social construction of Thailand’s HIV/AIDS epidemic over this period. In addition to his own field research the author draws on an ... Read more

This is the only English language study of Thailand’s HIV/AIDS epidemic to draw on long-term qualitative research in Northern Thailand as well as on a broad range of Thai (and some Khmer language) materials. Its contextualised and subtly nuanced analysis of the AIDS epidemic and of the impact of AIDS control initiatives, in concert with the theoretical and methodological contributions it makes to AIDS research and policy and behavioural interventions, makes it a timely publication of vital interest to scholars in the social sciences, as well as to the members of non-governmental organisations and international organisations working in the HIV/AIDS, health and development fields.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Condition
New
Series
Fertility, Reproduction & Sexuality
Number of Pages
338
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845452339
SKU
V9781845452339
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Ref
99-15

About Graham Fordham
Graham Fordham is a Social Anthropologist who lives in Bangkok, Thailand, and works as a consultant and researcher in HIV/AIDS and reproductive health. Over the past nineteen years he has conducted anthropological research in Northern Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and sub-Saharan Africa

Reviews for New Look at Thai Aids
“This hired-gun ethnographer is refreshingly angry…Fordham will make most anthropologists proud to be one…he shakes up complacent, comfortable, trivialized anthropology and valorizes its special methods and value to HIV and AIDS prevention initiatives.”  ·  Reviews in Anthropology “Fordham’s analysis questions the validity and currency accorded by researchers to a range of myths regarding Thai society that, he argues, underpin ... Read more

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