Graham Fordham

A New Look At Thai Aids

Perspectives from the Margin

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on original research in Northern Thailand and drawing on the breadth of indigenous Thai language materials, this study offers a sustained and powerful criticism of the normative modeling of the Thai AIDS epidemic in order to elicit new and more effective points of intervention.

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Produktdetails

• Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
• Verlag: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9781571815194
• ISBN-10: 1571815198
• Artikelnr.: 40257293

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

List of Acronyms
Preface
Acknowledgements
Author's Note
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Issues
Chapter 2. Creating Thailand's AIDS Epidemic
Chapter 3. Northern Thai Male Culture and the Assessment of HIV Risk:
Towards a New Approach
Chapter 4. Muddy Waters: The Construction of HIV/AIDS in Northern
Thailand's Thai Language Print Media
Chapter 5. Moral Panic and the Contruction of National Order: HIV/AIDS Risk
Groups and Moral Boundaries in the Creation of Modern Thailand
Chapter 6. Tradition, Sex and Morality: HIV/AIDS and the Pathologising of
Adolescent Sexuality in Northern Thailand
Chapter 7. Conclusion: Directions Forward
Postscript
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index