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Ageing In Today's World: Conversations between an Anthropologist and a Physician by Renee Rose Shield and Stanley M. Aronson

paradigm for understanding AIDS in Thailand is overly technological and statistically-driven, so instead he concerns himself with local understandings of disease, the increased publicity of sex, the construed deviance of minorities, the consolidation/affirmation of biomedical hegemony, the role of linguistics in social construction processes, and the corroborative role of the AIDS industry in the generation of a normative model. Fordham’s research leads him to conclude that the normative model for understanding the Thai AIDS epidemic is based on misconceived assumptions and that only a more anthropological understanding of Thai culture will lead to a more accurate portrayal of the situation. All of this argument is made in spite, of the fact, which Fordham acknowledges, that HIV intervention efforts in Thailand were highly successful. Rather, Fordham decries the current paradigm for legitimating and reinforcing unfair prejudices. He claims it is over-simplified and lacks reflexivity. Ultimately, he believes it is disempowering and sexually de-liberating. Fordham concludes his analysis by calling for a more robust understanding of sex and sexuality in Thai culture and he urges people to think critically about our commonsense assumptions about HIV and their social repercussions. Fordham’s book was easily the most courageous and provoking of these books on HIV, and he leaves us with an important reminder to always consider the implications of and local responses to our intervention efforts.