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AIDS-talk and the constitution of cultural models

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In a village in rural Haiti, a cohort of 20 adults was interviewed annually in order to trace the development of a cultural model of AIDS. It was possible to document the initial lack of a cultural model of AIDS followed by the elaboration over time of a widely shared representation of the new disorder. A number of steps important to this process were identified: exposure to illness or rumor of it; a high ranking in a hierarchy of percieved stress leading to sustained attention; and the generation of illness stories. It is argued that these stories provide the matrix within which nascent representations were anchored. The significance of intercurrent 'large-scale' political changes in the process of narratization is also underlined.

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  • Farmer, Paul, 1994. "AIDS-talk and the constitution of cultural models," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 38(6), pages 801-809, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:38:y:1994:i:6:p:801-809
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