Impure science : AIDS, activism, and the politics of knowledge / by Epstein, Steven

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Controversy, Credibility, and the Public Character of AIDS Research -- The Politics of Causation -- The Nature of a New Threat -- HIV and the Consolidation of Certainty -- Reopening The Causation Controversy -- The Debate That Wouldn't Die -- The Politics of Treatment -- Points of Departure -- "Drugs Into Bodies" -- The Critique of Pure Science -- Dilemmas and Divisions in Science and Politics -- Credible Knowledge Hierarchies of Expertise, and the Politics of Participation in Biomedicine -- Notes -- Methodological Appendix -- Index.…”
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