Impure science : AIDS, activism, and the politics of knowledge /
Epstein shows the extent to which AIDS research has been a social and political phenomenon and how the AIDS movement has transformed biomedical research practices through its capacity to garner credibility by novel strategies.
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1996.
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| Series: | Medicine and society ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Controversy, credibility, and the public character of AIDS research
- Part 1. The politics of causation
- Ch.1. The nature of a new threat
- Ch.2. HIV and the consolidation of certainty
- Ch.3. Reopening the causation controversy
- Ch.4. The debate that wouldn't die
- Part 2. The politics of treatment
- Ch.5. Points of departure
- Ch.6. "Drugs into bodies"
- Ch.7. The critique of pure science
- Ch.8. Dilemmas and divisions in science and politics
- Ch.9. Clinical trials and tribulations
- Conclusion: Credible knowledge hierarchies of expertise, and the politics of participation in biomedicine.