By Steven Epstein
ISBN-10: 0520202333
ISBN-13: 9780520202337
ISBN-10: 0520214455
ISBN-13: 9780520214453
Epstein exhibits the level to which AIDS study has been a social and political phenomenon and the way the AIDS stream has reworked biomedical examine practices via its ability to garner credibility by way of novel options. Epstein reveals that nonscientist AIDS activists have won sufficient of a voice within the medical international to form NIH–sponsored study to a extraordinary quantity. a result of blurring of roles and duties, the construction of biomedical wisdom approximately AIDS doesn't, he says, keep on with the pathways universal to technology; certainly, AIDS study can simply be understood as a box that's strangely wide, public, and contested. He concludes by way of interpreting fresh strikes to democratize biomedicine, arguing that even if AIDS activists have set the degree for brand new demanding situations to medical authority, all social events that search to democratize services face strange difficulties.
Avoiding polemics and accusations, Epstein presents a benchmark account of the AIDS epidemic so far, one who should be as precious to activists, coverage makers, and normal readers as to sociologists, physicians, and scientists.
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