Balancing the Socio-political and Medico-ethical Dimensions of HIV: A Social Public Health Approach

This book explores the many dimensions of national-level responses to HIV/AIDS, including conceptual, philosophical, and methodological perspectives from public health, public policy, bioethics, and social sciences. It calls out glaring neglects and makes a bold recommendation for the destabilization of the naturalness with which national HIV/AIDS responses ignore the socio-political and medico-ethical dimensions of HIV. The book is written at a time when public health actors are repositioning themselves to be competent users of not only pharmaceutic vaccines but also social vaccines. It is relevant to a broad spectrum of readers, including professionals, scholars, and students in public health, public policy, bioethics, and social sciences, as well as medical anthropologists, sociologists, and global health scholars.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 98 pages
Publication date: 09 July 2022
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

Responding to public health challenges at the global and local levels can give rise to an array of tensions. To assure sustainable public health, these tensions need to be meaningfully balanced. Using empirical evidence and lived experiences relating to HIV from the global south, this book enunciates the many dimensions of national-level responses to HIV/AIDS, including conceptual, philosophical, and methodological perspectives from public health, public policy, bioethics, and social sciences. Calling out glaring neglects, the book makes a bold recommendation for the destabilization of the naturalness with which national HIV/AIDS responses ignore the socio-political and medico-ethical dimensions of HIV. The case made is grounded in the philosophy of social public health. Such a critical perspective is not unique to Ghana's response to HIV/AIDS but serves as an emblematic voice for similarly situated settings of the global south. The book is also timely. It is written at a time when public health actors are repositioning themselves to be competent users of not only pharmaceutic vaccines, but also social vaccines. Topics explored in the chapters include:

Public health approaches to HIV and AIDS

Access to life-saving public health goods by persons infected or affected by HIV

"They are criminals": AIDS, the law, harm reduction, and the socially excluded

Developing socially and ethically responsive National AIDS policies

Balancing the Socio-political and Medico-ethical Dimensions of HIV: A Social Public Health Approach

is compelling reading for a broad spectrum of readers. The book will appeal to professionals, scholars, and students in public health, public policy, bioethics, and social sciences, as well as medical anthropologists, sociologists, and global health scholars.

Weight: 203g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031091902
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022