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A presentation made at the March 2005 Understanding Human Sexuality Seminar.
I convene an interdisciplinary programme in HIV/AIDS and Society. The core introductory course is called Critical Issues in the Study of HIV/AIDS and Society. In this course we explicitly take key social issues around the infection and epidemic and hold them up for scrutiny. In our view good and effective interventions to reduce the rate of infection and prevent transmission, must be the product of an open debate that sometimes challenges the conventional wisdom. |
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Our course is consciously interdisciplinary. We draw on theoretical approaches and insights from other disciplines to help us arrive at new understandings of key, and sometimes apparently intractable, challenges.
This is not a comfortable process, because we are looking at the familiar in new ways. It is rather like being in a hall of mirrors. The perspectives we are adopting may appear distorted. Sometimes, nevertheless, viewing things from a different perspective, or drawing on the theoretical insights from other disciplines, leads to radically new ways of seeing the issues. The hope is that this process generates new solutions to old problems. |
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