pt. 1. The Anthropology of AIDS. 1. Introduction. 2. Governing AIDS: The State-Medicine-Community Triad -- pt. 2. The Tactics of Health and Illness. 3. Identifying the Subject: HIV-Antibody Testing as a Social Process. 4. Reconstructing Self and others: Managing an HIV-Antibody Positive Status. 5. In Dialogue with Doctors: Aspects of a Medical "Creole" 6. Beyond Medicine: Alternative Therapies for HIV. 7. Reinventing Death -- pt. 3. Discursive Strategies of Resistance. 8. People Living with AIDS Inc.: The Genealogy of a New Identity. 9. The Emergence of a New Treatment Activism. 10. Therapeutic Truth Games. 11. Getting Angry: Emotional Expression as Strategic Intent. 12. Conclusion
Summary
Address given to the S.A. Branch of the Australian Institute of Librarians, March, 1949; the value of reading; p.19-26; Briefly mentions that Australian tribes had to rely on artists & thinkers; verses given in English of an Aranda rain-song, referring to rain ancestor of Kaporilja & Song of Iloata & mountain in Central MacDonnell Ranges
Notes
An enlarged version of an address to the South Australian Branch of the Australian Institute of Librarians, 1949
