Hiv Interventions - Biomedicine and the Traffic Between Information and Flesh

Informationen zum Autor Marsha Rosengarten is a senior lecturer in sociology at Goldsmiths! University of London. Klappentext Seeks to understand the relationship between HIV! medical technologies! and ideas about the body. This book is suitable for those who are engaged in questions of the social and ethical dimensions of biomedicine! biotechnology! and genomics. Zusammenfassung Seeks to understand the relationship between HIV! medical technologies! and ideas about the body. This book is suitable for those who are engaged in questions of the social and ethical dimensions of biomedicine! biotechnology! and genomics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: HIV! Information! and Flesh; 2. Imagination! Diagnostics! and the Materialization of HIV; 3. HIV: A Synergy of Biological Matter! Technological Matter! and Publics; 4. The "Informed Matter" of HIV Prevention; 5. The Human Host: Performative and Relational Difference; 6. Conclusion Notes; Bibliography; Index

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• Authors: Marsha Rosengarten
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.10.2009
• EAN: 9780295989594
• ISBN: 978-0-295-98959-4
• No. of pages: 148
• Series: In Vivo; In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science; In Vivo: The Cultural Mediatio; HIV Interventions; In Vivo: the Cultural Mediations of Biomedical ScienceIn Vivo: the Cultural Mediations of Biomedical ScienceIn Vivo: the Cultural Mediations of Biomedical ScienceIn Vivo: the Cultural Mediations of Bi
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine