Precarity and Hope at the Intersections of HIV and Cervical Cancer in a Johannesburg Clinic.

IF 1.5 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-08-17 Epub Date: 2024-09-05 DOI:10.1080/01459740.2024.2395273

Jonathan Stadler, Fiona Scorgie

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Abstract

In a tragically ironic twist, antiretroviral therapy (ART) that promised an end to AIDS ushered in a syndemic of viral cancers, transforming hope to despair. In this article we draw from the illness narratives of HIV positive women attending a cervical cancer screening clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa, and chart their pathways from HIV to cancer, and their quest for treatment. Our interlocutors described protracted struggles to access surgical procedures to prevent the onset of cervical cancer. Dealt a double blow of HIV and cervical cancer, women's narratives reveal the intersections of exposure to pathogens and the precarity of hope.

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约翰内斯堡一家诊所中艾滋病毒与宫颈癌交汇处的危险与希望》（Precarity and Hope at the Intersections of HIV and Cervical Cancer in a Johannesburg Clinic）。

具有讽刺意味的是，抗逆转录病毒疗法（ART）承诺终结艾滋病，但却带来了病毒性癌症综合症，将希望变成了绝望。在这篇文章中，我们从南非约翰内斯堡一家宫颈癌筛查诊所就诊的 HIV 阳性女性的疾病叙述中，描绘了她们从 HIV 感染到患癌的过程，以及她们寻求治疗的过程。我们的对话者描述了为获得手术治疗以预防宫颈癌发病而进行的长期斗争。在艾滋病毒和宫颈癌的双重打击下，妇女们的叙述揭示了病原体暴露和希望渺茫之间的交集。

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Medical Anthropology Multiple-

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4.10

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4.30%

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期刊介绍： Medical Anthropology provides a global forum for scholarly articles on the social patterns of ill-health and disease transmission, and experiences of and knowledge about health, illness and wellbeing. These include the nature, organization and movement of peoples, technologies and treatments, and how inequalities pattern access to these. Articles published in the journal showcase the theoretical sophistication, methodological soundness and ethnographic richness of contemporary medical anthropology. Through the publication of empirical articles and editorials, we encourage our authors and readers to engage critically with the key debates of our time. Medical Anthropology invites manuscripts on a wide range of topics, reflecting the diversity and the expanding interests and concerns of researchers in the field.