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- AIDS Alibis: Sex, Drugs, and Crime in the Americas
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Temple University Press
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AIDS Alibis tackles the cultural landscape upon which AIDS, often accompanied by poverty, drug addiction, and crime, proliferates on a global scale. Stephanie Kane layers stories of individuals and events -- from Chicago to Belize City, to cyberspace -- to illustrate the paths of HIV infection and the effects of environment, government intervention, and social mores. Linking ordinary yet kindred lives in communities around the globe, Kane challenges the assumptions underlying the use of police and courts to solve health problems.
The stories reveal the dynamics that determine how the policy decisions of white-collar health care professionals actually play out in real life. By focusing on life-changing social problems, the narratives highlight the contradictions between public health and criminal law. Look at how HIV has transformed our social consciousness, from intimate touch to institutional outreach. But, Kane argues, these changes are dwarfed by the United States's refusal to stop the war on drugs, in effect misdirecting resources and awareness.
AIDS Alibis combines empirical and interpretive methods in a path-breaking attempt to recognize the extent to which coercive institutional practices are implicated in HIV transmission patterns. Kane shows how th e virus feeds on the politics of inequality and indifference, even as it exploits the human need for intimacy and release.
The stories reveal the dynamics that determine how the policy decisions of white-collar health care professionals actually play out in real life. By focusing on life-changing social problems, the narratives highlight the contradictions between public health and criminal law. Look at how HIV has transformed our social consciousness, from intimate touch to institutional outreach. But, Kane argues, these changes are dwarfed by the United States's refusal to stop the war on drugs, in effect misdirecting resources and awareness.
AIDS Alibis combines empirical and interpretive methods in a path-breaking attempt to recognize the extent to which coercive institutional practices are implicated in HIV transmission patterns. Kane shows how th e virus feeds on the politics of inequality and indifference, even as it exploits the human need for intimacy and release.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- 1. Introduction
- pp. 1-20
- Part I. Work
- 2. Prostitution North
- pp. 23-45
- 3. Folk Surveillance
- pp. 46-58
- 4. Prostitution South
- pp. 59-74
- Part II. Escape
- 5. Death Rite
- pp. 77-80
- 6. Losing It
- pp. 81-96
- 7. Illusion and Control
- pp. 97-118
- 8. Easter in Livingston
- pp. 119-128
- Part III. Crime
- 9. Desperate
- pp. 131-147
- 10. The Positively Arrogant Mishap
- pp. 148-162
- 11. Outtakes
- pp. 163-169
- 12. Everything I Have Is Yours
- pp. 170-194
- Bibliography
- pp. 207-216
Additional Information
ISBN
9781439906132
Related ISBN(s)
9781566396271, 9781566396288
MARC Record
OCLC
648757358
Pages
245
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1998