La situación de seropositividad por VIH: ¿un objeto para la sociología de la enfermedad crónica?
At the onset of the 80s’, the brutal aparition of a viral disease shocked medicine and science, devoid of the knowledge necessary for an adequate thepary. The characteristics of this disease produced a very special social context. AIDS, a stigmatized sickness associated to the return of epidemy and...
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Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA
2000
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| Acceso en línea: | http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/CAS/article/view/4686 |
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| Sumario: | At the onset of the 80s’, the brutal aparition of a viral disease shocked medicine and science, devoid of the knowledge necessary for an adequate thepary. The characteristics of this disease produced a very special social context. AIDS, a stigmatized sickness associated to the return of epidemy and the fear of contagion, is not lived individually but in the frame of collective experience. This paper seeks to account for everyday life of asymptomatic seropositive people living with HIV and the problems they must face, by means of an approach based on sociology of chronic diseases. This approach opens to discussion different aspects, like the importance of secrecy in the management of a stigmatized disease, tha reorganization of everyday life marked by uncertainty and the relations between individual biography and collective history. |
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