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Overview"The ""cure"" for AIDS: the search goes on, keeping pace with our belief that AIDS is incurable. How such a seeming paradox works, and how it may well work against the proper treatment of the disease, is the subject of ""Unstable Frontiers"", a critical look at the cultural politics behind the quest for a cure for AIDS. This massive commercial and scientific project, John Erni suggests, actually hinges on our contradictory definitions of the disease as curable and incurable at the same time. Drawing on diverse sources, from popular media to medical literature to cultural theory, he shows how the dual discourse of curability/incurability frames the way we think about and act on issues of medical treatment for AIDS. His work makes a major advance in our understanding of, and, perhaps, humane response to, a national crisis. In his critique of the logic and fantasies underlying the double definition of AIDS, Erni explores a broad range of issues: the scientific paradigm used to develop AZT; the politics of alternative treatment practices, of clinical drug trials, and of AIDS activism; and the notions of time and temporality operating in aids treatment science. He also critiques the problematic popular themes, such as ""AIDS is invariably fatal"" and ""knowledge = cure"". Unique in its approach to a social and political issue still in the making, the book reveals how AIDS has challenged technomedicine's historical position of authority, and in doing so, recasts this challenge in a powerful and ultimately hopeful way." Full Product DetailsAuthor: John Nguyet ErniPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.440kg ISBN: 9780816623808ISBN 10: 0816623805 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 23 August 1994 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock Table of Contents"Paralysis or breakthrough: the making and unmaking of AZT; articulating the (im)possible: the contradictory fantasies of ""curing"" AIDS; temporality and the politics of AIDS science, or how to kill time in an epidemic; power and ambivalence: the conjunctural crises of techno-medicine and AIDS treatment activism; an epistemology of curing."ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |