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This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the relation between HIV/AIDS and culture in Africa. The work of anthropologists on HIV/AIDS in Africa has been enormous and crucial...

This chapter returns to the connections among sensuality, sexuality, and eroticism with which the implications of the virtue of sensual attunement for social ethics were reflected. Erotic...

This chapter discusses conflicts of interest in the commercialization of academic research in the U.S. It explains that the protection of people who serve as subjects of medical experiments...

This chapter examines how HIV/AIDS has impacted Ju/'hoansi, a traditional foraging community in Namibia. It suggests that gender equality among the Ju/'hoansi may be a factor in the lower HIV rates...

This chapter discusses the experience of Robert M. Dickson, an associate professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Tech, in terms of the commercialization of academic...

This chapter examines how ideologies of masculinity and sexual encounters in Zambia lead to the rejection of condom use and the promotion of sexual risk-taking. This study draws upon research...

This chapter examines cultural reactions to the social response to HIV/AIDS in Africa. It suggests that political economy issues explain HIV patterns in Africa far more than do cultural issues. It...

This chapter argues that an adequate theology of embodied relationship entails spirituality for embodied love requires embodied training. It analyzes the contributions of feminist ethics...

Deontology refers to one's obligations and personal imperatives, the language used to inform these, and their origin and development. Most analysts and therapists claim that the concept of...

This chapter reveals the similarities and differences between the Chagossians' forced displacement from the Chagos Archipelago and their onward migration to the UK. The ‘echoes of marginalisation’...