Bishop Kristina Monroe
School Geography and Development, The University of Arizona, P.O. Box 210076, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA.
GeoJournal. 2012;77(4):571-581. doi: 10.1007/s10708-010-9352-z. Epub 2010 Mar 23.
Before 2000 limited media coverage of medicine in South Africa existed, yet much of what did exist centered primarily on traditional healing practices. It was not until the introduction of HIV/AIDS that traditional medicine was seen as having some potential value to the population, but only so far as the ability of traditional healers to direct patients to biomedical treatment. This article examines how the contemporary western media portrays medicine in South Africa and how the introduction of HIV/AIDS as a major news story has shifted the depiction of western and traditional medical treatment. Insights from these questions are examined in light of the colonial context of South Africa's political struggle over medicine.
2000年以前，南非关于医学的媒体报道有限，而当时仅有的报道主要集中在传统治疗方法上。直到艾滋病病毒/艾滋病出现，传统医学才被视为对民众具有一定潜在价值，但也仅限于传统治疗师引导患者接受生物医学治疗的能力方面。本文探讨了当代西方媒体如何描绘南非的医学，以及艾滋病病毒/艾滋病作为重大新闻事件的出现如何改变了对西方医学和传统医学治疗的描述。鉴于南非在医学问题上的政治斗争的殖民背景，对这些问题的见解进行了审视。
