Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge (Medicine and Society) Reviews

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Release: 1996-01-01
Publisher: University of California Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0520214455
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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In the short, turbulent history of AIDS research and treatment, the boundaries between scientist insiders and lay outsiders have been crisscrossed to a degree never before seen in medical history. Steven Epstein's astute and readable investigation focuses on the critical question of "how certainty is constructed or deconstructed," leading us through the views of medical researchers, activists, policy makers, and others to discover how knowledge about AIDS emerges out of what he calls "credibility struggles."
Epstein shows the extent to which AIDS research has been a social and political phenomenon and how the AIDS movement has transformed biomedical research practices through its capacity to garner credibility by novel strategies. Epstein finds that nonscientist AIDS activists have gained enough of a voice in the scientific world to shape NIH-sponsored research to a remarkable extent. Because of the blurring of roles and responsibilities, the production of biomedical knowledge about Download Impure Science for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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