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VOL. 3, ISSUE 2 (2018)
Social construction of HIV/AIDS risk and Medicalization of social space: Critical view from Foucault Bio-Politics
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Joydeb Patra
Abstract
Risk is not an objective reality, instead, ‘the perception of risk is a social process’ – where HIV/AIDS related risk or security issues can often be more suitably seen as a way of maintaining social solidarity than as reflecting health related concern. Burries (2000) attempted reframe the construct of social risk, which he define as the danger that an individuals will be socially or economically penalized should be identified with an expensive, which comprise both the objective threat of harm and the subjective perception of risks for harm. Social construction of risk like HIV surveillance, therefore, should be understood in the ongoing process of social construction of HIV /AIDS illness. Whereas, medicalization as the process by which social aspect of human life or social-spatial position come into considered as medical problem, before they were not considered the pathological issues. Simultaneously, Foucault (1976) considered the process of indefinite medicalization to be one of the main features of society. He also, stressed that, concept of bio-power is literally having power over others bodies through the medicalization, ‘an explosion of numerous and diverse techniques for achieving the subjugation of bodies and the control of population.
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Pages:359-369
How to cite this article:
Joydeb Patra "Social construction of HIV/AIDS risk and Medicalization of social space: Critical view from Foucault Bio-Politics". International Journal of Academic Research and Development, Vol 3, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 359-369
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