AIDS and the Body Politic

Biomedicine and Sexual Difference
1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-415-14129-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Waldby, Catherine

Murdoch University,Australia

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Infektionskrankheiten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin HIV, AIDS

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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