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The social reality of disease is the outcome of a complex of diverse understandings, such as the perceptions of doctors and patients, public health policies and practices, media accounts, narratives, and legal statutes and court decisions. The study of AIDS pedagogy warrants, therefore, an approach that brings out the multiple sociocultural, political, biomedical and juridical contexts within which the epidemic is framed. To be effective, pedagogies must critically engage with these contexts, which require an interdisciplinary approach that a critical medical humanities can provide.
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Das, D.K. (2019). Conclusion: Towards a Critical Medical Humanities. In: Teaching AIDS. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6120-3_8
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