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Sommario
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction: Controversy, Credibility, and the Public Character of AIDS Research
The Crisis of Credibility and the Rise of the AIDS Movement
Analyzing AIDS Controversies
The Plan of the Book
Conceptualizing AIDS: Some Intellectual Debts
PART ONE: THE POLITICS OF
CAUSATION
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
PART TWO: THE POLITICS OF TREATMENT
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)
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 (199z-1993)
Living with Uncertainty (1993-1995)
Conclusion: Credible Knowledge, Hierarchies of
Expertise, and the Politics of Participation in
Biomedicine
Science and the Struggle for Credibility
The Transformation of AIDS Research
The Legacy of AIDS Activism
METHODOLOGICAL APPENDIX
NOTES
INDEX
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Steven Epstein is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. The work on which this book is based won the American Sociological Association's award for best dissertation of the year.
Riassunto
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. This book is suitable for sociologists, physicians, and scientists.
Testo aggiuntivo
"Lucid, balanced, and impressively well-documented."
