Unstable frontiers : technomedicine and the cultural politics of "curing" AIDS / John Nguyet Erni.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erni, John Nguyet.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS (Disease) in mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-160) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8564-9

OCLC:

476093607