Aids Rhetoric and Medical Knowledge

Alex Preda0521837707, 9780521837705, 9780511080456

Examining the formation of scientific knowledge about the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, Alex Preda highlights the metaphors, narratives, and classifications which framed scientific hypotheses about the nature of the infectious agent and its transmission. Preda compares these arguments with those used in the scientific analysis of SARS. He demonstrates how scientific knowledge about epidemics is shaped by cultural narratives and categories of social thought through a detailed review of biomedical publications.

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Table of contents :
Aids Rhetoric and Medical Knowledge……Page 1
Contents……Page 8
Acknowledgments……Page 10
Abbreviations……Page 12
Introduction……Page 14
1 Making Up the Rules of Seeing……Page 58
2 The Economy of Risk Categories……Page 80
3 The Etiologic Agent and the Rhetoric of Scientific Debate……Page 126
4 Retrovirus vs. Retrovirus……Page 169
5 The Spatial Configurations of “AIDS Risk”……Page 201
6 Who Is How Much?……Page 223
7 In Lieu of a Conclusion……Page 238
References……Page 262
Name Index……Page 282
subject Index……Page 284
Back Cover……Page 290
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