Different approaches

This morning I had a lecture in my Geographies of Health and Health Care module. It was about infectious diseases, for example HIV/AIDS. There are a lot of problems related to AIDS, and many different views on how you should approach them (as a health geographer). There is the social-spatial approach, that takes on a positivism perspective and study where the disease is on the map. A very scientific approach, more about curing the disease than prevent it, not interested in emotional values. Then there is the ethnographic approach where you look more at the humans themselves and tries to prevent a spread through education and such. One I like myself, even though I think there is not often one perfect approach but instead a mix is the best, is the social interactionist approach. It is a quite new and modern view on all this, and it also looks more at the people themselves, more considering and studies everyday interactions and culture among those affected. For example this study I've read about gay men in North America, in where the author is very critical about how these men are just portrayed as dots on a map and how their bodies is seen as mere vectors for illness and carriers of the disease, in stead of considering their own views and feelings and how they interact socially rather than just sexually. I think it is a better and more human approach in order to prevent a further spread.
Then last but not least we also have the more humorous view on the origin of AIDS, here represented and presented by Dave Chappelle: