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Published on: March 30, 2014
["Be your own risk-manager!"--the discourse on risk in German HIV/AIDS-prevention]
1Institut für Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin der Universität Freiburg i. Br. kueppers@egm.uni-freiburg.de
Abstract:
This article presents, some results of a discourse analysis on the HIV/AIDS-Prevention in Germany. The Analysis has been carried out for a thesis in historical anthropology and focuses on the dicourse on risk, which becomes evident in the statements related to HIV/AIDS-Prevention. First of all, the article shows, how the description of risky situations replaces the construction of high-risk groups. Moreover, the article retraces changes in the strategies of HIV/AIDS-Prevention over the last 25 years and pays special attention to references to risky situations.
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