Connors M M
Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Cult Med Psychiatry. 1995 Dec;19(4):425-52. doi: 10.1007/BF01379397.
This essay addresses the space between a cultural critique and a class analysis of HIV transmission. It explores how injection drug users, as a disempowered group, resist hegemony through dissent. Distrust of the medical establishment and severe social and legal constraints force injection drug users to reconstruct the AIDS message. Economic and political survival inflates the need for trust and reciprocity within their social network. This makes the meaning of AIDS a continually ambiguous one for drug users. The ways in which dissent to domination is enacted and the effect this has on HIV prevention is explored.
本文探讨了对艾滋病病毒传播进行文化批判与阶级分析之间的空白地带。它探究了注射吸毒者作为一个弱势群体如何通过异议来抵制霸权。对医疗机构的不信任以及严格的社会和法律限制迫使注射吸毒者重新解读艾滋病信息。经济和政治生存的需求加剧了他们社交网络中对信任和互惠的渴望。这使得艾滋病的意义对吸毒者而言始终模糊不清。本文还探讨了抵制统治的方式及其对艾滋病预防的影响。
