Unstable frontiers [[electronic resource] ] : technomedicine and the cultural politics of "curing" AIDS / / John Nguyet Erni
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Erni John Nguyet
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| Titolo: |
Unstable frontiers [[electronic resource] ] : technomedicine and the cultural politics of "curing" AIDS / / John Nguyet Erni
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1994 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (186 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.1/969792 |
| Soggetto topico: | AIDS (Disease) - Social aspects |
| AIDS (Disease) in mass media | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Unstable frontiers |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-8564-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910457378803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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