SOC309Y1 Chapter Notes -Serostatus, Magic Johnson, Greg Louganis
Document Summary
Readings: archetypes of infection: people with hiv/aids in the australian press in the mid 1990"s. Three major archetypes: aids victim, aids survivor, aids carrier. Categorization often serves discursively to support and reproduce discrimination against marginalized or disempowered groups. Gay men with hiv/aids as guilty, deserving of their condition, punished for their deviant sexual activities by their illness and death from aids. Strong emphasis on lifestyle choices and health, and those with hiv/aids are usually paying the price for having neglected one"s duty of care to oneself. Aids carrier: conforms to elements of epidemic psychology", or the feelings of suspicion, fear, panic and the need to take strong action against scapegoats, this often emerges at times in which an epidemic is seen to threaten a society. The news media were the first sources of knowledge for many people about the new condition of hiv/aids.
