The Resource Impure science : AIDS, activism, and the politics of knowledge, Steven Epstein
Impure science : AIDS, activism, and the politics of knowledge, Steven Epstein
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- Summary
- Epstein 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiii, 466 p.
- Contents
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- Introduction: Controversy, credibility, and the public character of AIDS research -- Part 1. 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 -- Part 2. The politics of treatment. Points of departure ; "Drugs into bodies" ; The critique of pure science ; Dilemmas and divisions in science and politics ; Clinical trials and tribulations -- Conclusion: Credible knowledge hierarchies of expertise, and the politics of participation in biomedicine
- Introduction: Controversy, credibility, and the public character of AIDS research. The crisis of credibility and the rise of the AIDS movement ; Analyzing AIDS controversies ; Conceptualizing AIDS: some intellectual debts -- Part one: The politics of causation. 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) ; HIV and the consolidation of certainty ; The construction of scientific proof (1984-1986) ; HIV as "obligatory passage point" ; Reopening the causation controversy ; From deafening silence to the pages of Science (1987-1988) ; Consolidation and refinement (1989-1991) ; The debate that wouldn't die ; The controversy reignites (1991-1992) ; The dynamics of closure: whither the controversy? (1997-1995) ; Causation and credibility -- Part two: The politics of treatment. Points of departure ; Targeting a retrovirus (1984-1986) ; Clinical trials take center stage (1986-1987) ; "Drugs into bodies" ; Gaining access (1987-1988) ; A knowledge-empowered movement ; The critique of pure science ; AZT and the politics of interpretation (1989-1990) ; Activism and the manufacture of knowledge (1989-1991) ; Dilemmas and divisions in science and politics ; Combination therapy and the "surrogate markers" debate (1989-1992) ; Inside and outside the system ; Clinical trials and tribulations ; The search for new directions (1992-1993) ; 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
- Isbn
- 9780520214453
- Label
- Impure science : AIDS, activism, and the politics of knowledge
- Title
- Impure science
- Title remainder
- AIDS, activism, and the politics of knowledge
- Statement of responsibility
- Steven Epstein
- Subject
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- AIDS
- AIDS
- AIDS (Disease) -- Research | Social aspects -- United States
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Activisme
- Activisme
- Aids
- Forschung
- Kennissociologie
- Kennissociologie
- Politics
- Research
- Sida -- Aspect social
- Sida -- Recherche
- Sida -- Recherche | Aspect social -- États-Unis
- Sidéens -- États-Unis
- Soziologie
- USA
- USA
- United States
- AIDS
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Epstein 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
- Additional physical form
- A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program.
- Awards note
- Society for the Study of Social Problems C. Wright Mills Award, 1996.
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Epstein, Steven
- Dewey number
- 362.1/969792/00973
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- RA644.A25
- LC item number
- E68 1996
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
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- W1
- WC 503
- NLM item number
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- ME6490 v.7 1996
- E62i 1996
- Series statement
- Medicine and society
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- AIDS (Disease)
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Politics
- Research
- United States
- AIDS
- Activisme
- Kennissociologie
- Sida
- AIDS
- Activisme
- Kennissociologie
- Aids
- Forschung
- Soziologie
- USA
- Sida
- Sida
- Sidéens
- AIDS
- USA
- Label
- Impure science : AIDS, activism, and the politics of knowledge, Steven Epstein
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-443) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
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- Introduction: Controversy, credibility, and the public character of AIDS research -- Part 1. 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 -- Part 2. The politics of treatment. Points of departure ; "Drugs into bodies" ; The critique of pure science ; Dilemmas and divisions in science and politics ; Clinical trials and tribulations -- Conclusion: Credible knowledge hierarchies of expertise, and the politics of participation in biomedicine
- Introduction: Controversy, credibility, and the public character of AIDS research. The crisis of credibility and the rise of the AIDS movement ; Analyzing AIDS controversies ; Conceptualizing AIDS: some intellectual debts -- Part one: The politics of causation. 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) ; HIV and the consolidation of certainty ; The construction of scientific proof (1984-1986) ; HIV as "obligatory passage point" ; Reopening the causation controversy ; From deafening silence to the pages of Science (1987-1988) ; Consolidation and refinement (1989-1991) ; The debate that wouldn't die ; The controversy reignites (1991-1992) ; The dynamics of closure: whither the controversy? (1997-1995) ; Causation and credibility -- Part two: The politics of treatment. Points of departure ; Targeting a retrovirus (1984-1986) ; Clinical trials take center stage (1986-1987) ; "Drugs into bodies" ; Gaining access (1987-1988) ; A knowledge-empowered movement ; The critique of pure science ; AZT and the politics of interpretation (1989-1990) ; Activism and the manufacture of knowledge (1989-1991) ; Dilemmas and divisions in science and politics ; Combination therapy and the "surrogate markers" debate (1989-1992) ; Inside and outside the system ; Clinical trials and tribulations ; The search for new directions (1992-1993) ; 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
- Control code
- ocm34564867
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 466 p.
- Isbn
- 9780520214453
- Lccn
- 96016805
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) o34564867
- (OCoLC)34564867
- Label
- Impure science : AIDS, activism, and the politics of knowledge, Steven Epstein
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-443) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Introduction: Controversy, credibility, and the public character of AIDS research -- Part 1. 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 -- Part 2. The politics of treatment. Points of departure ; "Drugs into bodies" ; The critique of pure science ; Dilemmas and divisions in science and politics ; Clinical trials and tribulations -- Conclusion: Credible knowledge hierarchies of expertise, and the politics of participation in biomedicine
- Introduction: Controversy, credibility, and the public character of AIDS research. The crisis of credibility and the rise of the AIDS movement ; Analyzing AIDS controversies ; Conceptualizing AIDS: some intellectual debts -- Part one: The politics of causation. 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) ; HIV and the consolidation of certainty ; The construction of scientific proof (1984-1986) ; HIV as "obligatory passage point" ; Reopening the causation controversy ; From deafening silence to the pages of Science (1987-1988) ; Consolidation and refinement (1989-1991) ; The debate that wouldn't die ; The controversy reignites (1991-1992) ; The dynamics of closure: whither the controversy? (1997-1995) ; Causation and credibility -- Part two: The politics of treatment. Points of departure ; Targeting a retrovirus (1984-1986) ; Clinical trials take center stage (1986-1987) ; "Drugs into bodies" ; Gaining access (1987-1988) ; A knowledge-empowered movement ; The critique of pure science ; AZT and the politics of interpretation (1989-1990) ; Activism and the manufacture of knowledge (1989-1991) ; Dilemmas and divisions in science and politics ; Combination therapy and the "surrogate markers" debate (1989-1992) ; Inside and outside the system ; Clinical trials and tribulations ; The search for new directions (1992-1993) ; 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
- Control code
- ocm34564867
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 466 p.
- Isbn
- 9780520214453
- Lccn
- 96016805
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o34564867
- (OCoLC)34564867
Subject
- AIDS
- AIDS
- AIDS (Disease) -- Research | Social aspects -- United States
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Activisme
- Activisme
- Aids
- Forschung
- Kennissociologie
- Kennissociologie
- Politics
- Research
- Sida -- Aspect social
- Sida -- Recherche
- Sida -- Recherche | Aspect social -- États-Unis
- Sidéens -- États-Unis
- Soziologie
- USA
- USA
- United States
- AIDS
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