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How to Have Theory in an Epidemic – Cultural Chronicles of AIDS de Paula A. Treichler

How to Have Theory in an Epidemic – Cultural Chronicles of AIDS

Autor Paula A. Treichler
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 iul 1999
Presents a comprehensive collection of writings, including essays from the 1980s and 1990s that present an argument about the AIDS epidemic. The author addresses a range of issues, from biomedical discourse and theories of pathogenesis to the mainstream media's depictions of the crisis in both developed and developing countries.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822323181
ISBN-10: 0822323184
Pagini: 496
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.81 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Locul publicării:United States

Recenzii

"During the 1980s the cultural theorist Paula Treichler published a series of provocative and significant articles deconstructing how the new AIDS epidemic was being invented. Several of her pieces have had a lasting impact on our understanding of the multiple meanings of AIDS, in particular her concept of AIDS as 'an epidemic of signification'. A decade later she has brought these writings together with a new prologue and some concluding remarks in a book."--Sexualities, 3 (3) "Looking backward and ahead, How to have theory in an epidemic is nothing short of a handbook of the meaning of AIDS: as human experience, as political reality, as public service action, and, not least, as moral engagement with one of the great challenges to meaning-making and unmaking in everyday life." Dr Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University "Paula Treichler's essays are certainly among the most significant written on the subject of AIDS. They are, in fact, a model of what the field of cultural studies at its best can contribute to our thinking about urgent social and political issues. This is an essential book, one that will strongly affect the way people approach the subject of AIDS in the future." Douglas Crimp, author of AIDS: Demo Graphics "[an] excellent example of how commitment can be combined with academic writing ... to be recommended."--Social History of Medicine, Vol 14, No 1, 2001 "[an] excellent example of how commitment can be combined with academic writing ... to be recommended."--Social History of Medicine, Vol 14, No 1, 2001

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"Paula Treichler's essays are certainly among the most significant written on the subject of AIDS. They are, in fact, a model of what the field of cultural studies at its best can contribute to our thinking about urgent social and political issues. This is an essential book, one that will strongly affect the way people approach the subject of AIDS in the future."--Douglas Crimp, author of "AIDS: Demo Graphics"

Cuprins

Acknowledgments ix
A Note on the Text xiii
Prologue 1
AIDS, Homophobia, and Biomedical Discourse: An Epidemic of Signification 11
The Burdens of History: Gender and Representation in AIDS Discourse,
>AIDS and HIV Infection in the Third World: A First World Chronicle 99
Seduced and Terrorized: AIDS in the Media 127
AIDS, HIV, and the Cultural Construction of Reality 149
AIDS Narratives on Television: Whose Story? 176
AIDS, Africa, and Cultural Theory 205
Beyond Cosmo: AIDS, Identity, and Inscriptions of Gender 235
How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: The Evolution of AIDS, Treatment, and Activism 278
Epilogue 315
Notes 331
Bibliography 387
Index 453