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Author Treichler, Paula A., author.

Title How to have theory in an epidemic : cultural chronicles of AIDS / Paula A. Treichler
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 1999
©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 477 pages) : illustrations
Contents AIDS, homophobia, and biomedical discourse: an epidemic of signification -- The burdens of history: gender and representation in AIDS discourse, 1981-1988 -- AIDS and HIV infection in the Third World: a first world chronicle -- Seduced and terrorized: AIDS in the media -- AIDS, HIV, and the cultural construction of reality -- AIDS narratives on television: whose story? -- AIDS, Africa, and cultural theory -- Beyond Cosmo: AIDS, identity, and inscriptions of gender -- How to have theory in an epidemic: the evolution of AIDS, treatment and activism
Summary Paula A. Treichler has become a singularly important voice among the significant theorists on the AIDS crisis. Dissecting the cultural politics surrounding representations of HIV and AIDS, her work has altered the field of cultural studies by establishing medicine as a legitimate focus for cultural analysis. How to Have Theory in an Epidemic is a comprehensive collection of Treichler's related writings, including revised and updated essays from the 1980s and 1990s that present a sustained argument about the AIDS epidemic from a uniquely knowledgeable and interdisciplinary standpoint."AIDS is more than an epidemic disease," Treichler writes, "it is an epidemic of meanings." Exploring how such meanings originate, proliferate, and take hold, her essays investigate how certain interpretations of the epidemic dominate while others are obscured. They also suggest ways to understand and choose between overlapping or competing discourses. In her coverage of roughly fifteen years of the AIDS epidemic, Treichler addresses a range of key issues, from biomedical discourse and theories of pathogenesis to the mainstream media's depictions of the crisis in both developed and developing countries. She also examines representations of women and AIDS, treatment issues, and the role of activism in shaping the politics of the epidemic. Linking the AIDS tragedy to a uniquely broad spectrum of contemporary theory and culture, this collection concludes with an essay on the continued importance of theoretical thought for untangling the sociocultural phenomena of AIDS--and for tackling the disease itself. With an exhaustive bibliography of critical and theoretical writings on HIV and AIDS, this long-awaited volume will be essential to all those invested in studying the course of AIDS, its devastating medical effects, and its massive impact on contemporary culture. It should become a standard text in university courses dealing with AIDS in biomedicine, sociology, anthropology, gay and lesbian studies, women's studies, and cultural and media studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-451) and index
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Subject AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects
Culture -- Philosophy
AIDS (Disease) in mass media.
Social ecology.
Social history.
Prejudices.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- history
Social Environment
Social Conditions
Prejudice
human ecology.
social history.
44.78 immunological diseases.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Social history
Social ecology
Prejudices
AIDS (Disease) in mass media
AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects
Culture -- Philosophy
Syndrome d'immunodéficience acquise -- ethnologie.
Culture (sociologie)
Syndrome d'immunodéficience acquise -- Histoire.
Aids
Diskursanalyse
Kulturphilosophie
Massenmedien
AIDS.
Sociale aspecten.
Culturele aspecten.
Massamedia.
Sida -- Ethnologie.
Sociologie de la culture.
Sida -- Histoire.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822396963
0822396963