MHS-2410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: African-American Culture, Structural Violence
23 May 2018
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Out of Control
1. List the 5 reasons HIV is “out of control” according to the film.
a. In what ways do these explanations reflect or contradict Link and Phelan or Farmer’s
approach to explaining disease rates?
b. Are any what Farmer calls “immodest claims of causality” which mistake structural
violence for culture?
2. What social constructions of the HIV epidemic, African American sexuality, African American
men, African American culture, etc. do you see in the film?
a. What might Brandt, or one of the other authors we read on social construction (e.g.
Treichler, Jones, Epstein) have to say about these constructions?
Explanation
Evidence? Reflections of or contradictions with Link & Phelan
(1995) or Farmer (1999)?
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