AIDS and the body politic : biomedicine and sexual difference / Catherine Waldby.

  • Waldby, Cathy.
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1996
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London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

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xii, 169 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Bibliographic information

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

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.

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    History of Medicine
    FEJ /WAL
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  • 9780415141291
  • 041514129X
  • 9780415141307
  • 0415141303
  • 9780203360330
  • 0203360338