Catherine Waldby

AIDS and the Body Politic (eBook, ePUB)

Biomedicine and Sexual Difference

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book demonstates the extent to which establis hed ideas about the virus, the immune system, the HIV test and the epidemiology of the disease rely upon unexamined, conservative assumptions about sexual identity and sexual difference.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134768424
• Artikelnr.: 47887383

Autorenporträt

Catherine Waldby currently teaches in the Communications and Cultural Studies programme and the Women¿s Studies programme at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

1 INTRODUCTION: TOTAL WAR 2 THE BIOMEDICAL IMAGINATION AND THE ANATOMICAL
BODY: AIDS AND THE NATURE/ CULTURE DISTINCTION 3 THE PRIMAL SCENE OF
IMMUNOLOGY 4 EPIDEMIOLOGY AND THE BODY POLITIC 5 TECHNOLOGIES OF THE BODY
POLITIC: THE HIV ANTIBODY TEST 6 CONCLUSION: SEXUAL IDENTITY AND
CONTAMINATION