A New Look At Thai Aids : : Perspectives from the Margin / / Graham Fordham.

Following the detection of the first HIV infections in the early 1980s, by the 1990s Thailand was routinely depicted as having the world’s fastest moving HIV/AIDS epidemic. However, by the early 2000’s the bulk of scholarly and medical AIDS literature portrayed the epidemic as being largely under co...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
Series:Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (338 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ACRONYMS
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • AUTHOR’S NOTE
  • CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION: THE ISSUES
  • CHAPTER 2 CREATING THAILAND’S AIDS EPIDEMIC
  • CHAPTER 3 NORTHERN THAI MALE CULTURE AND THE ASSESSMENT OF HIV RISK: TOWARDS A NEW APPROACH
  • CHAPTER 4 MUDDY WATERS: THE CONSTRUCTION OF HIV/AIDS IN NORTHERN THAILAND’S THAI LANGUAGE PRINT MEDIA
  • CHAPTER 5 MORAL PANIC AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONAL ORDER: HIV/AIDS RISK GROUPS AND MORAL BOUNDARIES IN THE CREATION OF MODERN THAILAND
  • CHAPTER 6 TRADITION, SEX AND MORALITY: HIV/AIDS AND THE PATHOLOGISING OF ADOLESCENT SEXUALITY IN NORTHERN THAILAND
  • CHAPTER 7 CONCLUSION: DIRECTIONS FORWARD
  • POSTSCRIPT – PHNOM PENH 2002 – A PERSONAL NOTE
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • AUTHOR INDEX
  • SUBJECT INDEX