Bibliographic citations
Lan, J., (2019). Sida y temor: las representaciones sobre los pacientes de una nueva epidemia a partir del conocimiento médico y tres diarios limeños entre 1985 y 1988 [Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú]. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/13922
Lan, J., Sida y temor: las representaciones sobre los pacientes de una nueva epidemia a partir del conocimiento médico y tres diarios limeños entre 1985 y 1988 []. PE: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/13922
@misc{sunedu/2666537,
title = "Sida y temor: las representaciones sobre los pacientes de una nueva epidemia a partir del conocimiento médico y tres diarios limeños entre 1985 y 1988",
author = "Lan Ninamango, Juan Antonio",
publisher = "Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú",
year = "2019"
}
This thesis studies medical and media sources to analyze the way in which AIDS patients were represented in mid 1980s Peru. To that end, historical research was applied to the epidemiological work done by Raúl Patrucco Puig MD, and to various thesis on medicine done at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, during the second half of 1980s. On the other hand, archival work was applied to the AIDS related notes that appeared in newspapers like La República, El Comercio, y Expreso. Taken together, these empirical sources allowed us to explain how the outbreak of AIDS epidemy in Peru triggered different stigmata and stereotypes towards marginal groups considered to be out of the moral and sexual normal order, such as homosexuals, prostitutes, criminals, and drug-addicts. It was found that these representations fed repression from the State towards those who practiced a dissident sexuality and were infected with the virus, which was then seen as a proper ending for such disturbing behaviors. This configuration emerged at a time in which Peruvian society was going through a multidimensional crisis, and the AIDS outbreak just came to be seen as one more terrifying element of that crisis.
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