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Author:

Epstein, Steven.

Title:

Impure science : AIDS, activism, and the politics of knowledge / Steven Epstein.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c1996

Description:

xiii, 466 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--Social aspects--United States.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--United States.
Politics--United States.
Research--United States.
Sida--Aspect social--Aspect social--États-Unis.
AIDS.
Activisme.
Kennissociologie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-443) and index.

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.

Series:

Medicine and society

ISBN:

9780520202337 (alk. paper)
0520202333 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

96016805

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

UUAX975 -- Briar Cliff University - Mueller Library (Sioux City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)