THE CONCEPTION OF THE BODY IN THE CONTEXT OF HIV-AIDS

Authors

  • María E. Epele

Keywords:

Sociocultural anthropology, Biology, HIV AIDS,

Abstract

The conception of the body registered in the discourse of HIV-AIDS patients is different from the dominant representation (Mind/Body dualism) in Western Society and Biomedical knowledge. Such construction of the body from H IV-AIOS integrate biological, psychological and social aspects. and all of them are subjected to the same logic. This elaboration has a sllrvival vallle for the patients because it is made under the same scale of illness experience.

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