This book examines some of the ways in which HIV/AIDS is affecting South African society. Catholic theological responses have focused extensively on the implications of HIV/AIDS for the area of sexual ethics. Although there are important questions to be answered here, many more fundamental issues have been overlooked as a result. This book responds to the need within Catholic theology for a greater examination of the injustices associated with the AIDS pandemic. The author argues that the human rights challenges associated with poverty, gender discrimination, sexual violence and access to essential AIDS-related health care are a crucial feature of the crisis. The author turns to the social teaching of the Catholic Church for a fuller framework of analysis in this regard and provides a critical examination of that teaching’s core concepts and principles. The work of leading international economists Amartya Sen and Muhammad Yunus is explored as a means of relating the principles of Catholic social teaching to the concrete social and economic realities that exacerbate this global pandemic.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9783039119387
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-3-03911-938-7
- Verlag: Peter Lang
- Erscheinungstermin: 06.10.2010
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2010
- Serie: Africa in Development
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 300 g
- Seiten: 193
- Format (B x H): 150 x 225 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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