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How to have theory in an epidemic : cultural chronicles of AIDS

Presents an argument about the AIDS epidemic from a knowledgeable and interdisciplinary standpoint. This book, containing essays, addresses a range of key issues, from biomedical discourse and theories of pathogenesis to the mainstream media's depictions of the crisis in both developed and developing countries.
Print Book, English, 1999
Duke University Press, Durham, 1999
xi, 477 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780822322863, 9780822323181, 0822322862, 0822323184
40331281
AIDS, homophobia, and biomedical discourse: an epidemic of signification
The burdens of history: gender and representation in AIDS discourse, 1981-1988
AIDS and HIV infection in the Third World: a first world chronicle
Seduced and terrorized: AIDS in the media
AIDS, HIV, and the cultural construction of reality
AIDS narratives on television: whose story?
AIDS, Africa, and cultural theory
Beyond Cosmo: AIDS, identity, and inscriptions of gender
How to have theory in an epidemic: the evolution of AIDS, treatment and activism