Global Responses to AIDS

"... a coherent and fascinating social analysis of AIDS-related knowledge, examining the social facts of knowledge production and developments interior to communities of science." Medical Humanities Review"... a multilayered, composite approach that involves multisited ethnographic research in different spheres of the collective responses to AIDS... " -- ChoiceThe response to AIDS from various groups in developing knowledge of and about this health crisis is the focus of this revealing work. Rio de Janeiro serves as an observation point for the study of the intersecting worlds of activism, clinical practice, and biomedical research.

Cristiana Bastos is a Senior Research Fellow at the Social Sciences Institute, University of Lisbon and is the author of Os Montes do Nordeste Algarvio and several articles on Algarve and Alentejo.

Acknowledgments

vii

(4)

Introduction

xi

1. AIDS and Science

1

(22)

2. Politics and the Construction of Knowledge: AIDS Activism as a New Social Movement

23

(27)

3. Sponsoring Global Action: The Role of WHO

50

(18)

4. Local Action: Responding to AIDS in Brazil

68

(28)

5. Central Problems in a Peripheral Landscape: Negotiating Knowledge and Treating AIDS in Brazilian Medical Settings

96

(30)

6. War Metaphors in Germ Theory and Immunology: In Search of a New Paradigm

126

(19)

7. Conclusions

145

(10)

Notes

155

(34)

References

189

(30)

Index

219

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Global Responses to AIDS

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