1. How are the national, supranational, and local levels on which the HIV/AIDS pandemic is dealt with intertwined, according to Patton?
2. How have racial politics affected representations of HIV/AIDS?
3. What are the ways that politics and science are intertwined, according to Patton?
4. What is the myth that Irwin, et al. aim to debunk? How does the myth get perpetuated?
5. Irwin et al. argue that poor peoples choices in life are curtailed in ways that make risky behavior a necessary part of life. What are some examples they give of how this is the case? Where in the material we have covered this semester have we seen such a dynamic before?
1. What do you make of Brazils move to break patents? Is it fair?
2. To whom is the animation targeted and how does it make its case? What are your thoughts on the idea of a patent
pool?
3. What role are U.S.-based entities playing in the spread of HIV both within its borders and in developing nations?
Watch sections two (The Spread Escalates) and three (Politics and Tracking AIDS History) of Frontline: The Age of AIDS, Part 1
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1. Do these clips ever present a definitive answer to the origin of AIDS? What does it imply about the origins?
2. What does the statement It could not be solved with money, it could only be solved by scientists suggest?
3. What are alternatives to closing down borders to people with AIDS, closing down bathhouses?
4. How do we see the beginnings of stigma arising in this account of AIDS globally and in San Francisco?
5. What do Jerry Falwells comments about homosexuality reveal about the relationship between morality and claims about nature?