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Autore |
Erni John Nguyet |
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Unstable frontiers [[electronic resource] ] : technomedicine and the cultural politics of "curing" AIDS / / John Nguyet Erni |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1994 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (186 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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AIDS (Disease) - Social aspects |
AIDS (Disease) in mass media |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-160) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 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; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Drawing on diverse sources, from popular media to medical literature to cultural theory, Erni shows how the dual discourse of curability/incurability frames the way we think about and act on issues of medical treatment for AIDS. |
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