AIDS and the Body Politic
eBook - ePub

AIDS and the Body Politic

Biomedicine and Sexual Difference

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

AIDS and the Body Politic

Biomedicine and Sexual Difference

About this book

Catherine Waldby's informative study draws on feminist theory, cultural studies, the philosophy of science and gay and lesbian studies to problematise the factual scientific discourse about AIDS and interpret it as a political discourse. Waldby argues that much AIDS discourse relies on an implicit and unconscious equation between sexual health and heterosexual masculinity. In this equation between women, bisexual and gay men are the targets of preventative programmes, while heterosexual men tend to remain unaddressed by such programmes.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. COPYRIGHT
  4. FIGURES
  5. ACRONYMS
  6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  7. 1: INTRODUCTION TOTAL WAR
  8. 2: THE BIOMEDICAL IMAGINATION AND THE ANATOMICAL BODY AIDS AND THE NATURE/CULTURE DISTINCTION
  9. 3: THE PRIMAL SCENE OF IMMUNOLOGY
  10. 4: EPIDEMIOLOGY AND THE BODY POLITIC
  11. 5: TECHNOLOGIES OF THE BODY POLITIC THE HIV ANTIBODY TEST
  12. 6: CONCLUSION SEXUAL IDENTITY AND CONTAMINATION
  13. NOTES
  14. BIBLIOGRAPHY

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