UID:
almafu_9958057564602883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 466 p. )
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ill. ;
ISBN:
0-520-92125-9
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0-585-03395-1
Series Statement:
Medicine and society Impure science
Content:
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.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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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.
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-21445-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-20233-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520921252
