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AIDS and the body politic : biomedicine and sexual difference / Catherine Waldby
Bib ID 1458255
Format BookBook
Author
Waldby, Cathy
 
Description London ; New York : Routledge, 1996 
xii, 169 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 
ISBN 041514129X (hbk)  0415141303 (pbk)  0415141303 (pbk.)  041514129X 
Series

Writing corporealities

Full contents
  • 1. Introduction: Total War
  • 2. The Biomedical Imagination and the Anatomical Body: AIDS and the Nature/Culture Distinction
  • 3. The Primal Scene of Immunology
  • 4. Epidemiology and the Body Politic
  • 5. Technologies of the Body Politic: The HIV Antibody Test
  • 6. Conclusion: Sexual Identity and Contamination.
 
Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-165) and index.

Subjects AIDS (Disease)  |  AIDS (Disease) in mass media.  |  Masculinity.  |  Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.  |  Human Body.  |  Sex.  |  Sociology, Medical.  |  AIDS - Prevention.

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