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Báo cáo y học: " Review of "Witches, Westerners, and HIV: AIDS and Cultures of Blame in Africa" by Alexander Rodlac"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Review of "Witches, Westerners, and HIV: AIDS and Cultures of Blame in Africa" by Alexander Rodlach. | AIDS Research and Therapy BioMed Central Book review Open Access Review of Witches Westerners and HIV AIDS and Cultures of Blame in Africa by Alexander Rodlach Kearsley A Stewart Address Department of Anthropology Northwestern University Evanston IL 60208 USA Email Kearsley A Stewart - kstewart@northwestern.edu Corresponding author Published 7 March 2007 AIDS Research and Therapy 2007 4 5 doi 10.1186 1742-6405-4-5 Received 1 March 2007 Accepted 7 March 2007 This article is available from http www.aidsrestherapy.cOm content 4 1 5 2007 Stewart licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http creativecommons.org licenses by 2.0 which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Book details Rodlach Alexander Witches Westerners and HIV AIDS and Cultures of Blame in Africa Walnut Creek California Left Coast Press 2006. 247 pages ISBN 1-59874-033-4 hardback and 1-59874-034-2 paperback This easy-to-read scrupulously researched and fascinating book addresses two critical but stubborn problems which threaten to reduce the effectiveness of many externally-funded HIV AIDS prevention and treatment programs in Africa. First is the reluctance by biomedical and public health practitioners to recognize the essential value of qualitative and ethnographic data for the success of AIDS intervention programs in Africa. Second is the challenge of explaining the culturally coherent logic behind the seemingly irrational and contradictory views of Africans who blame sorcery and witchcraft for the HIV AIDS epidemic. While this book will not completely solve both of these entrenched problems it is a powerful statement about the value of systematically studying local explanatory models of the AIDS epidemic and offers a convincing and fine-grained analysis of the African quest to explain and account for personal misfortune in a time of .