02979nam 22006252a 450 991049586930332120230207213232.00-520-92125-90-585-03395-110.1525/9780520921252(CKB)111000211185566(MH)007146282-1(SSID)ssj0000177542(PQKBManifestationID)12037347(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000177542(PQKBWorkID)10217549(PQKB)10264844(DE-B1597)648437(DE-B1597)9780520921252(EXLCZ)9911100021118556619960402d1996 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrImpure science AIDS, activism, and the politics of knowledge /Steven Epstein[electronic resource]Berkeley University of California Press19961 online resource (xiii, 466 p. )ill. ;Medicine and society Impure scienceMedicine and society ;7Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-520-21445-5 0-520-20233-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.AIDS (Disease)ResearchSocial aspectsUnited StatesAcquired Immunodeficiency SyndromePoliticsResearchUnited StatesAIDS (Disease)ResearchSocial aspectsAcquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.Politics.Research.362.1/969792/00973Epstein Steven250913DLCDLCBOOK9910495869303321Impure science2865098UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress