Department of Communication, Purdue University, Beering Hall #2114, 100 N. University Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.
Health Commun. 2011 Jul-Aug;26(5):437-49. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2011.554166. Epub 2011 Jun 30.
As a field of inquiry, postcolonial health communication seeks to apprehend processes implicated in the construction of "primitive" versus "modern" with respect to issues of health. In the case of HIV/AIDS, the sociocultural representations of the disease have a profound impact on how the disease is configured medically and symbolically in dominant cultural imagination. Postcolonial constructions of disease are mobilized around the political and economic interests of the dominant power structures in global spaces. In this article, a thematic analysis of the constructions of HIV/AIDS in India in the mainstream U.S. news media was conducted. A corpus of news articles from the Lexis-Nexis database was created with the keywords "HIV," "AIDS," and "India." Three themes emerged from the study: (a) India as a site of biomedical control; (b) the economic logics of HIV/AIDS; and (c) AIDS, development, and the "Third World."
作为一个研究领域，后殖民健康传播试图理解与健康问题相关的“原始”与“现代”建构过程中所涉及的问题。在艾滋病毒/艾滋病的情况下，疾病的社会文化表现形式对疾病在主流文化想象中在医学和象征意义上的构建方式有着深远的影响。疾病的后殖民建构是围绕着全球空间中占主导地位的权力结构的政治和经济利益而调动起来的。在本文中，对美国主流新闻媒体中印度艾滋病毒/艾滋病的建构进行了主题分析。利用 Lexis-Nexis 数据库中的关键词“HIV”、“AIDS”和“India”创建了一个新闻文章语料库。研究中出现了三个主题：（a）印度作为生物医学控制的场所；（b）艾滋病毒/艾滋病的经济逻辑；（c）艾滋病、发展与“第三世界”。
