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Unstable frontiers : technomedicine and the cultural politics of "curing" AIDS

Title
Unstable frontiers : technomedicine and the cultural politics of "curing" AIDS / John Nguyet Erni.
Author
Erni, John Nguyet
Publication
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1994.

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Description
xviii, 166 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects
  • AIDS (Disease) in mass media
  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
  • Mass Media
  • Politics
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-160) and index.
Contents
1. Paralysis or Breakthrough: The Making and Unmaking of AZT -- 2. Articulating the (Im)possible: The Contradictory Fantasies of "Curing" AIDS -- 3. Temporality and the Politics of AIDS Science; or, How to Kill Time in an Epidemic -- 4. Power and Ambivalence: The Conjunctural Crises of Technomedicine and AIDS Treatment Activism -- 5. An Epistemology of Curing -- Appendix: A Summary of the Major Treatment-Related Stories Reported on Network Television News, 1985-1992.
ISBN
  • 0816623805 (acid-free paper)
  • 0816623813 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
LCCN
94000773
OCLC
  • 29703556
  • ocm29703556
  • SCSB-4772520
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries