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Vivre avec la drépanocytose ou le sida : culture et géopolitique des itinéraires thérapeutiques des étrangers caribéens résidant à Saint-Martin

Living with AIDS or Sickle-Cell Disease in Sint Maarten : The Culture and Geopolitics of Therapeutic Management of Caribbean Foreigners
Catherine Benoît
p. 265-279

Abstracts

The therapeutic management of Caribbean foreigners living with AIDS or Sickle-Cell disease in Sint Maarten makes use of both traditional and biomedical health systems. Anthropologists and medical doctors have often considered that the so-called cultural understanding of these diseases is responsible of the patients’ non-adherence to treatments. First, this paper will show the social use that patients make of their own culture. Second, it will demonstrate that access to health care, and not cultural representations, is primary in the management of therapy. Finally, it will emphasize that access to health care is related to the French political agenda in the region and that patients’ non-adherence can not be understood if not framed in geopolitical issues.

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References

Bibliographical reference

Catherine Benoît, “Vivre avec la drépanocytose ou le sida : culture et géopolitique des itinéraires thérapeutiques des étrangers caribéens résidant à Saint-Martin”Espace populations sociétés, 2004/2 | 2004, 265-279.

Electronic reference

Catherine Benoît, “Vivre avec la drépanocytose ou le sida : culture et géopolitique des itinéraires thérapeutiques des étrangers caribéens résidant à Saint-Martin”Espace populations sociétés [Online], 2004/2 | 2004, Online since 21 January 2009, connection on 28 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/eps/159; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/eps.159

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About the author

Catherine Benoît

Department of Anthropology, Connecticut College, 270 Mohegan Avenue, New London, CT, 06320, États-Unis, catherine.benoit@conncoll.edu

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