| Description |
xiii, 466 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Medicine and society |
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Medicine and society.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Controversy, Credibility, and the Public Character of AIDS Research -- 1. The Nature of a New Threat. The Discovery of a "Gay Disease" (1981-1982). Lifestyle vs. Virus (1982-1983). The Triumph of Retrovirology (1982-1984) -- 2. HIV and the Consolidation of Certainty. The Construction of Scientific Proof (1984-1986). HIV as "Obligatory Passage Point" -- 3. Reopening the Causation Controversy. From Deafening Silence to the Pages of Science (1987-1988). Consolidation and Refinement (1989-1991) -- 4. The Debate That Wouldn't Die. The Controversy Reignites (1991-1992). The Dynamics of Closure: Whither the Controversy? (1992-1995). Causation and Credibility -- 5. Points of Departure. Targeting a Retrovirus (1984-1986). Clinical Trials Take Center Stage (1986-1987) -- 6. "Drugs into Bodies" Gaining Access (1987-1988). A Knowledge-Empowered Movement -- 7. The Critique of Pure Science. AZT and the Politics of Interpretation (1989-1990) |
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Activism and the Manufacture of Knowledge (1989-1991) -- 8. Dilemmas and Divisions in Science and Politics. Combination Therapy and the "Surrogate Markers" Debate (1989-1992). Inside and Outside the System -- 9. Clinical Trials and Tribulations. The Search for New Directions (1992-1993). Living with Uncertainty (1993-1995) -- Conclusion: Credible Knowledge, Hierarchies of Expertise, and the Politics of Participation in Biomedicine |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-443) and index |
| Notes |
A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program |
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English |
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Society for the Study of Social Problems C. Wright Mills Award, 1996 |
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AIDS (Disease) -- Research -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
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Politics.
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Research.
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- epidemiology.
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- etiology.
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
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Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
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Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
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Attitude to Health.
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Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms.
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Behavior.
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Biomedical Research.
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Chemicals and Drugs
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Communication.
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Community Health Services.
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Consumer Organizations.
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Community Participation.
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Decision Making.
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Delivery of Health Care.
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Deoxyribonucleosides.
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Dideoxynucleosides.
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Disciplines and Occupations
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Disease.
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Dissent and Disputes.
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Drug Industry.
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Drugs, Investigational.
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Education.
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Educational Measurement.
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Environment and Public Health.
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Epidemiologic Methods.
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Federal Government.
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Government.
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Group Processes.
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HIV Infections.
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HIV Seropositivity.
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Health Behavior.
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Health Care Economics and Organizations.
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Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms.
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Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services.
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Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation.
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Health Services Administration.
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Health Services.
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Heterocyclic Compounds, 1-Ring.
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Heterocyclic Compounds.
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Homosexuality.
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Human Experimentation.
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Humanities.
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Immune System Diseases.
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Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes.
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Industry.
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Information Science.
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Interpersonal Relations.
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Investigative Techniques.
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Knowledge.
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Lentivirus Infections.
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Life Style.
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Mathematical Concepts.
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Mental Processes.
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Methods.
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Named Groups
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Natural Science Disciplines.
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Nucleic Acids, Nucleotides, and Nucleosides.
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Nucleosides.
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Occupational Groups.
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Organizations.
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Patient Acceptance of Health Care.
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Patient Care Management.
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Patient Care.
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Patient Compliance.
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Patient Participation.
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Patient Selection.
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Persons.
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Pharmaceutical Preparations.
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Phenomena and Processes
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Policy.
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Politics.
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Population Characteristics.
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Probability.
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Professional Competence.
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Psychiatry and Psychology
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Psychological Phenomena and Processes
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Psychology, Social.
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Public Health.
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Public Policy.
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Pyrimidine Nucleosides.
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Pyrimidines.
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Quality of Health Care.
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RNA Virus Infections.
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Reproductive Physiological Phenomena.
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Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena.
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Research Design.
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Research Personnel.
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Research Subjects.
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Research.
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Retroviridae Infections.
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Science.
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Sexual Behavior.
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Sexuality.
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral.
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
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Slow Virus Diseases.
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Social Behavior.
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Social Change.
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Social Control Policies.
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Social Control, Formal.
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Social Dominance.
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Social Sciences.
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Socioeconomic Factors.
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Sociology.
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Statistics as Topic.
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Technology, Industry, Agriculture
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Technology, Industry, and Agriculture.
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Therapeutics.
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Thinking.
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Thymidine.
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Uncertainty.
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Virus Diseases.
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Zidovudine.
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| SUBJECT |
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
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United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| LC no. |
96016805 |
| ISBN |
0520202333 (alk. paper) |
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9780520214453 (paperback) |
