Women's Studies 2162A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Intersectionality, Semi-Structured Interview

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2162A/B
• Professor: Andrea Allen

Document Summary

Using body mapping methodologies to transform hiv research practices. Biomedical approaches to adherence often pay insufficient attention to socio-cultural context in shaping individual and structural factors that produce localized experiences related to taking hiv meds. Body mapping has emerged as a powerful, participant-driven arts based methodology to more fully understand the life conditions that inform adherence and other aspects of living with hiv. I explore the strengths of this methodology to inform our understandings of adherence, vulnerability and what doing science looks like for participants and researcher s. This offers exciting, useful insights by social scientists committed to generating both new practices and new ways of knowing within the context of hiv research. Adherence: to follow, to be faithful to following prescribed medical advice focus on individual behaviour and psychosocial determinant of health. Value and merit attached to haart (highly active antiretroviral therapy) *(antiretroviral.