Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Where Does AIDS Come from?
  • Metaphors of Science
  • Two Models of Health and Disease
  • French Novels and the Construction of Otherness
  • Degeneracy and Inversion: The Male Homosexual as Internal Other
  • The Discourse of Degenerescence
  • Inventing the Male "Homosexual"
  • Literature as Medicine, or Medicine as Literature?
  • Gender Indecision and Cultural Anxiety: Outing Zola
  • Theory and Practice of the Experimental Novel
  • Naturalism as Heterosexuality
  • Queering Napoleon III?
  • The Rambling Degenerate and the Instability of Authorship
  • Reclaiming Disease and Infection: Jean Genet and the Politics of the Border
  • Disease, Vermin, and Abjection
  • Crossing Metaphorical Borders, or Contaminating Language
  • Literal Borders
  • A Cultural History of AIDS Discourse: France and the United States
  • What AIDS Criticism?
  • AIDS Representations
  • Constructing the AIDS Sufferer
  • AIDS and the Unraveling of Modernity: The Example of Herve Guibert
  • Herve Guibert
  • Returning the Doctor's Gaze
  • The Diseased Subject
  • The Discourse of Disease and the Disease of Discourse
  • Gossip, Rumors, and the Margins of Modernity
  • Conclusion: French Universalism and the Question of Community.