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Autore |
Epstein Steven |
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Titolo |
Impure science : AIDS, activism, and the politics of knowledge / / Steven Epstein [[electronic resource]] |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 1996 |
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0-520-92125-9 |
0-585-03395-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 466 p. ) : ill. ; |
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Collana |
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Medicine and society Impure science |
Medicine and society ; ; 7 |
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Soggetti |
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AIDS (Disease) - Research - Social aspects - United States |
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome |
Politics |
Research |
United States |
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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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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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