| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 225 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The conspiratorial move against HIV science and its consequences -- AIDS origin conspiracy theories in the United States and South Africa -- Who believes AIDS conspiracy theories and why leadership matters -- Science, politics, and credibility : David Gilbert fights AIDS conspiracy beliefs in US prisons -- Science, conspiracy theory, and the South African AIDS policy tragedy -- Hero scientists, cultropreneurs, living icons, and praise-singers : AIDS denialism as community -- Defending the imprimatur of science : Duesberg and the medical hypotheses saga -- The conspiratorial move and the struggle for evidence-based medicine |
| Summary |
Millions of people across the globe erroneously believe America manufactured the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to be used as a biological weapon. Ironically, the idea grew from a real conspiracy theory hatched by Russian and East German intelligence officers in the mid-1980s, in the hopes of spreading misinformation about the disease. Yet while the cold war is over, the biological weapons myth continues to resonate on both sides of the Atlantic. Nicoli Nattrass explores the social and political factors prolonging this fiction, especially within African American and black South Africa |
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Examines conspiracy theories surrounding HIV and AIDS, focusing on two main widely believed falsehoods--that America manufactured AIDS to be a biological weapon and the belief that HIV is harmless and the true cause of AIDS are antiretroviral drugs |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-216) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd |
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AIDS (Disease) -- Transmission.
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HIV infections -- United States
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HIV infections -- South Africa
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AIDS (Disease) -- United States
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AIDS (Disease) -- South Africa
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Medical policy -- United States
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Medical policy -- South Africa
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Conspiracy theories.
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Public opinion -- United States
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Public opinion -- South Africa
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AIDS (Disease)
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Medical policy.
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
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Health Policy
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- AIDS & HIV.
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MEDICAL -- AIDS & HIV.
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AIDS (Disease)
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AIDS (Disease) -- Transmission
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Conspiracy theories
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HIV infections
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Medical policy
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Public opinion
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Aids
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Öffentliche Meinung
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South Africa |
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United States |
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South Africa
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United States
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Südafrika Kontinent
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Columbia University. Press.
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| LC no. |
2011045297 |
| ISBN |
9780231520256 |
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0231520255 |
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