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    AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism is an edited collection of essays that examines the social and political dimensions of AIDS. The contributors analyze how the meaning of AIDS is contested and how it has precipitated a crisis over social meaning. The essays discuss topics like public health policy, medical understandings of AIDS, and activism in response to the epidemic from diverse perspectives. The book also includes artworks and interviews that capture different voices in the debate over AIDS. It was one of the first works to analyze the social and political battle over how AIDS is conceptualized and addressed.

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    14/07/2020 AIDS | The MIT Press

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    AIDS
    Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism

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    Summary
    The literature on AIDS has attempted to teach us the "facts" about this new disease or to provid
    discovery and developing public health policy. But AIDS has precipitated a crisis that is not prima
    political; AIDS has precipitated a crisis of signification the "meaning" of AIDS is hotly contested i
    conceptualize it and seek to respond to it. AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism is the first bo
    battle over meaning as its premise.

    Contributors Leo Bersani, author of The Freudian Body; Simon Watney, who serves on the board
    Committee of London's Terrence Higgens Trust; Jan Zita Grover, medical editor at San Francisc
    former executive director of the New York City Minority Task Force on AIDS; and Sander Gilman
    Pathology.

    Also included are essays by Paula A. Treichler, who teaches in the Medical School and in commu
    Illinois; Carol Leigh, a member of COYOTE and contributor to Sex Work; and Max Navarre, edito
    Coalition monthly Newsline. In addition to these essays, the book contains a portfolio of manifes
    photographs from the publications of the PWA Coalition, an interview with three members of the
    New York City Commission on Human Rights; and presentations for the independent video docu
    Limits and Bright Eyes.

    An October Book.

    Hardcover
    Out of Print
    ISBN: 9780262031400
    272 pp. | 7 in x 9 in
    November 1988

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    $24.00 X | £20.00
    ISBN: 9780262530798
    272 pp. | 7 in x 9 in
    September 1988

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