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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Epstein, Steven
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1996.
Colección:Medicine and society.
Temas:
AIDS (Disease) > Research > Social aspects > United States.
AIDS (Disease)
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Sida > Recherche > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Sida.
MEDICAL > AIDS & HIV.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > AIDS & HIV.
Aids
Forschung
Soziologie
AIDS.
Activisme.
Kennissociologie.
Sida > Recherche.
Sida > Aspect social.
Sidéens > États-Unis.
United States.
USA
USA.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Controversy, Credibility, and the Public Character of AIDS Research
  • The Politics of Causation
  • The Nature of a New Threat
  • HIV and the Consolidation of Certainty
  • Reopening The Causation Controversy
  • The Debate That Wouldn't Die
  • The Politics of Treatment
  • Points of Departure
  • "Drugs Into Bodies"
  • The Critique of Pure Science
  • Dilemmas and Divisions in Science and Politics
  • Credible Knowledge Hierarchies of Expertise, and the Politics of Participation in Biomedicine
  • Notes
  • Methodological Appendix
  • Index.

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