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1 online resource (219 pages) |
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The research on homosexuality series |
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Research on homosexuality.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction: Activism and Marginalizationin the AIDS Crisis; How We ""Know"" What We ""Know"" About HIV: On Institutionally-Structured Epistemologies of AIDS; Institutional Structures Defined; The Dangerous ""Functional"" View of Activism; ""Full-Blown"":Winning Battles, Losing the War; Underpinning Assertions; Summary of Chapters; Gatekeeping Through Media Format: Strategies of Voicefor the HIV-Positive via Human Interest News Formatsand Organizations |
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HIV/AIDS and the American Media: Review of the LiteratureThe Gay Disease -- Theoretical Base: Media Logic; The Privileging of Organizational Sources; Shaping Reality; Media Logic and Formats of Control: Hetero-Centrism in Action; Everyone's Interest but the HIV-Posinve; The Inglefinger Rule -- Assertions Made Based onthe Collected Data; Findings; The Voice of People with HIV/AIDS; Human Interest: The HIV-Positive Format; Levels of Coverage; Dominant Types of HIV/AIDS-SpecificCoverage; Interviews: Blaming the Victim; Conclusion |
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Strategies of Voice for the HIV-Positive: On the Efficacy of ActivismTruth and Deception in AIDS Information Brochures; The Generally Held Medical Model of AIDS; How the Brochures were Selected and Evaluated; The Adequacy of Information Provided inthe Brochures; The Continuity of HIV Infection and AIDS; The Near Certainty That HIV Infection Will Result in AIDS; The Lethality of AIDS; The Importance of Behavior Rather Than Group Membership in Determining the Risk of HIV Infection; Overall Ratings of Brochures; Truth and Deception; Conclusions; Recommendations About AIDS Information Brochures |
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Recommendations Concerning Broader Issues of Public Access to InformationPolicy Recommendation Number One:; About the National Parents' Council on AIDS; The Social Construction of Target Populations and the Transformation of Prison-Based AIDS Policy: A Descriptive Case Study; Policy Formation and the Social Construction of Targets; The Construction of Populations in the Correctional Setting; Advantaged Group-The Staff; The Contenders-Activists, Medical Staff, and Social Workers; The Dependents-Noninfected Inmates; The Deviants-HIV-Positive Inmates |
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The Formation of Restrictive Policies: 1985-1987Testing; County Prison Response; Confidentiality; County Prison Response; Housing Assignments; County Prison Response; Participation in Activities; County Prison Response; Implementation of Restrictive Policies; The Interim Years-1988-1990; County Prison Response-The Changing Social Constructions; Today and Beyond; County Prison Respons-Policy Changes; Conclusion; The Problem with Making AIDS Comfortable: FederalPolicy Making and the Rhetoric of Innocence; Placing Blame: Constructing People with AIDS; Defining AIDS |
| Summary |
Activism and Marginalization in the AIDS Crisis shows readers how the advent of HIV-disease has brought into question the utility of certain forms of "activism" as they relate to understanding and fighting the social impacts of disease. This informative and powerful book is centrally concerned about the ways in which institutionally governed social constructions of HIV/AIDS affect policy and public images of the disease more so than activist efforts. It asserts that an accounting of the power institutional structures have over the dominant social constructions of HIV disease is fundamental to |
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Scripts ofDisease and Epidemics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- United States
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Political activists -- United States.
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AIDS (Disease) in mass media.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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AIDS (Disease) in mass media
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AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects
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Political activists
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hallett, Michael A
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| ISBN |
9781317957935 |
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1317957938 |
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1306871700 |
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9781306871709 |
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9781315865515 |
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1315865513 |
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9781317957911 |
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1317957911 |
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9781317957928 |
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131795792X |
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