MHS-2410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Inequality, Symbolic Power, Biomedicine

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Medicine, Health, and Society
• Course: MHS-2410
• Professor: Petty Juleigh

Document Summary

Parker and aggleton: hiv and aids-related stigma and discrimination. Mann"s three phases of aids epidemic: hiv infection: silently unnoticed for many years, aids itself (the syndrome that occurs because of hiv infection, epidemic of social, cultural, economic and political responses to aids. At least in part, our collective inability to more adequately confront stigmatization, discrimination and denial in relation to hiv and aids is linked to the relatively limited theoretical and methodological tools available to us. Defining stigma as an attribute that is significantly discrediting"" which, in the eyes of society, serves to reduce the person who possesses it. Aids as encountered by these different population groups. Early sociologists viewed discrimination as an expression of ethnocentrism in other words a cultural phenomenon of dislike of the unlike""". More recent sociological analyses of discrimination, however, concentrate on patterns of dominance and oppression, viewed as expressions of a struggle for power and privilege"".