Hodgson, I. (1997) - Attitudes towards HIV and AIDS: entropy and health care ethics.Journal of Advanced Nursing, 26 (2), pp 283 - 288[Webplaced 15th July 1997] Summary Attitudes towards people with HIV and AIDS are generally negative, and according to the literature, this translates into an unwillingness to care. The reasons why this negativity is so robust (flying as it does in the face of science and logic) can be broadly categorised into 4: social; psychological; political and anthropological in nature. Entropy, a model from classical physics, can be used to illustrate the apparent inevitability of this process, and to suggest a possible solution. See more in the article. |
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