To call AIDS a moral problem is to locate its cause in the goodness or badness of human action and to suggest that a solution depends on changing evil ways. To call it a medical problem is to locate its cause in the biological workings of the mind or body and to suggest that a solution rests with a drug, a vaccine, or surgery. This contrast in perspective shows
a. Labels are important because they tend to evoke a particular cause and a particular solution.
b. the unintended harm that results when AIDS is defined as a medical problem.
c. that there is no right way to talk about AIDS.
d. that it is difficult to generate profiles describing why people have AIDS.
A
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