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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457378803321

Autore

Erni John Nguyet

Titolo

Unstable frontiers [[electronic resource] ] : technomedicine and the cultural politics of "curing" AIDS / / John Nguyet Erni

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1994

ISBN

0-8166-8564-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (186 p.)

Disciplina

362.1/969792

Soggetti

AIDS (Disease) - Social aspects

AIDS (Disease) in mass media

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-160) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.