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AIDS and the Body Politic - Biomedicine and Sexual Difference (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,369
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AIDS and the Body Politic - Biomedicine and Sexual Difference (Paperback): Catherine Waldby

AIDS and the Body Politic - Biomedicine and Sexual Difference (Paperback)

Catherine Waldby

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This study draws on feminist theory, cultural studies, the philosophy of science, and gay and lesbian studies to problematize 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, women, bisexual and gay men are the targets of preventative programmes, while heterosexual men tend to remain unaddressed by such programmes. Drawing upon examples of preventative policies from Australia, Britain and the USA, Waldby investigates the concept of public health and questions whose interests are represented in a "healthy society". It demonstrates the extent to which established 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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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: September 1996
First published: 1996
Authors: Catherine Waldby
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-14130-7
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > AIDS: social aspects
Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Diseases & disorders > Infectious & contagious diseases > HIV / AIDS
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LSN: 0-415-14130-3
Barcode: 9780415141307

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