| Description |
[xi], 282 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Social aspects of AIDS |
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Social aspects of AIDS.
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| Contents |
Introduction : Epidemic! What epidemic? -- Ordinary boys -- Vito Russo : 1946 90 -- School's out -- Queer epistemology : activism, 'outing' and the politics of sexual identities -- Emergent sexual identities and HIV/AIDS -- The killing fields of Europe -- Charles Barber : 1956 92 -- Read my lips : AIDS, art activism -- How to have sax in an epidemic -- Hard won credibility -- Michael Callen : 1955 93 -- Dr Simon Mansfield : 1960 93 -- AIDS and the politics of queer diaspora -- Derek Jarman 1942 94 : a political death -- Numbers and nightmares : HIV/AIDS in Britain -- Art from the pit : some reflections on monuments, memory and AIDSIn purgatory : the work of Felix Gonzales-Torres -- Acts of memory -- Signifying AIDS : 'Global AIDS', red ribbons and other controversies -- Concorde -- AIDS awareness? -- Moving targets : some reflections on the origins and history of gay men fighting AIDS -- 'Lifelike' : imagining the bodies of people with AIDS -- The politics of AIDS treatment information activism -- GLF : 25 years on -- These waves of dying friends: gay men, AIDS and multiple loss |
| Summary |
Presents a chronological selection of Watney's writings from the 1990s, with new contextualising introductory and concluding essays and offers a chronicle of the changing and often confusing course of the epidemic |
| Notes |
"Published simultaneously in the Canada." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
AIDS (Disease)
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AIDS (Disease) in mass media.
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AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects.
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Gays -- Identity.
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Gays -- Social aspects.
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- psychology.
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Homosexuality, Male.
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Social Environment.
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Social Identification.
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| SUBJECT |
United Kingdom. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113 |
| LC no. |
99086533 |
| ISBN |
1841420573 (paperback) |
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1841420581 (hb) |
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