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AIDS: Globalization and Its Discontents
Author(s) -
Hunt Mary E.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2004.00590.x
Subject(s) - morality , pandemic , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , globalization , variety (cybernetics) , sociology , resource (disambiguation) , developing country , service (business) , political science , gender studies , economic growth , environmental ethics , disease , medicine , covid-19 , economics , law , virology , economy , computer network , philosophy , pathology , artificial intelligence , computer science , infectious disease (medical specialty)
. HIV/AIDS has changed from a disease of white gay men in the United States to a pandemic that largely involves women and dependent children in developing countries. Many theologies of disease are necessary to cope with the variety of expressions of this pandemic. Christian theoethical reflection on HIV/AIDS has been largely focused on sexual ethics, with uneven and mainly unhelpful results. Among the ethical issues that shape future useful conversations are globalized economics and resource sharing, the morality and economics of the pharmaceutical industry, and the need for sex education and access to reproductive choice. Considering such issues in international, interreligious, multiscientific contexts is a concrete next step for the religion‐and‐science dialogue. It will put the powerful tools of both fields to the service of the common good.