Book Details
Orange Code:57024
Paperback:289 pages
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1. Making Up the Rules of Seeing Opportunistic Infections and the New Syndrome2. The Economy of Risk Categories3. The Etiologic Agent and the Rhetoric of Scientific Debate4. Retrovirus vs. Retrovirus The Arguments for HTLV-III, LAV, and HIV5. The Spatial Configurations of “AIDS Risk”6. Who Is How Much? From Qualities to Quantities of AIDS Risk7. In Lieu of a Conclusion Do Rhetorical Practices Matter?
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Examining the formation of scientific knowledge about the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, Alex Preda highlights the metaphors, narratives, and classifications which framed scientific hypotheses about the nature of the infectious agent and its transmission. Preda compares these arguments with those used in the scientific analysis of SARS. He demonstrates how scientific knowledge about epidemics is shaped by cultural narratives and categories of social thought through a detailed review of biomedical publications.
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