Affiliation:
1. Odeljenje za filozofiju, Filozofski fakultet, Univerzitet u Beogradu
Abstract
?Medical populism? refers to the phenomenon of resistance to measures aimed
at protecting public health: refusal to receive a vaccine, to wear
protective masks and the like. In the text I analyze the AIDS epidemic
starting from the concept of medical populism. This epidemic, in my opinion,
is an example of how collective coping with the disease generates populist
representations whose essence is the sharp demarcation of different social
groups and polarization. The aim of the text is to show how the key
metaphors derived from populist ideas about the origin of the disease shaped
scientific knowledge about that disease.
Publisher
National Library of Serbia
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