By examining the early outbreaks in San Francisco, Cochrane unfolds the "creation" of AIDS in one geographic location and then traces how and why major claims about the transmission of HIV were made, extrapolated and then disseminated to the rest of the world - all important factors in understanding this disease.
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Excellent-controversial, argumentative, and extremely well researched, When AIDS Began brings a hidden trove of information on the handling of the first cases of AIDS in San Francisco out to the light of day. Fascinating in its detailed accounts of these first stories and how surveillance workers actually make their decisions on who has HIV or AIDS and why. There isn't another book like it.
–-Nancy E. Stoller, author of Lessons From the Damned: Queers, Whores, and Junkies Respond to AIDS
At last an impeccably researched book on AIDS that critically examines the untested assumptions and misleading language that were built into the very fabric of AIDS research from its outset. A must read for anyone interested in the ways that linguistic, sociological and anthropological issues structure the nature of medical investigation and the way we think about disease.
–-Robert Root-Bernstein, author of Rethinking AIDS: The Tragic Cost of Premature Consensus
Cochrane's powerful book revisits a crucial turning point in recent history-the birth of the AIDS epidemic and the discursive formation that arose so quickly to encompass it. Erudite and unsettling, her work disrupts our certainties and shows how rapidly this apparatus congealed.
–-Paul Rabinow, author of Anthropos Today: Reflections on Modern Equipment
–-Nancy E. Stoller, author of Lessons From the Damned: Queers, Whores, and Junkies Respond to AIDS
At last an impeccably researched book on AIDS that critically examines the untested assumptions and misleading language that were built into the very fabric of AIDS research from its outset. A must read for anyone interested in the ways that linguistic, sociological and anthropological issues structure the nature of medical investigation and the way we think about disease.
–-Robert Root-Bernstein, author of Rethinking AIDS: The Tragic Cost of Premature Consensus
Cochrane's powerful book revisits a crucial turning point in recent history-the birth of the AIDS epidemic and the discursive formation that arose so quickly to encompass it. Erudite and unsettling, her work disrupts our certainties and shows how rapidly this apparatus congealed.
–-Paul Rabinow, author of Anthropos Today: Reflections on Modern Equipment
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Michelle Cochrane received her Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley and has taught at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles
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In the most general sense, the critique of empiricism and "ethically neutral" scientific practices is a theoretical argument about the way in which the structure of science at a macro level of analysis influences the choice of the object(s) of study and conditions and constrains the nature and interpretation of the product(s) of that research. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Francisco, United States, New York City, Los Angeles, Bay Area, Selma Dritz, Joe Smith, University of California, Care Act, Art Ammann, Joseph Sonnabend, Michael Callen, Irwin Memorial Blood Bank, National Death Index, National Institutes of Health, Robert Gallo, East Coast, Harold Jaffe, Luc Montagnier, Randy Shilts, The Story So Far, Ludwick Fleck, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Tim Piland New!
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In the most general sense, the critique of empiricism and "ethically neutral" scientific practices is a theoretical argument about the way in which the structure of science at a macro level of analysis influences the choice of the object(s) of study and conditions and constrains the nature and interpretation of the product(s) of that research. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Francisco, United States, New York City, Los Angeles, Bay Area, Selma Dritz, Joe Smith, University of California, Care Act, Art Ammann, Joseph Sonnabend, Michael Callen, Irwin Memorial Blood Bank, National Death Index, National Institutes of Health, Robert Gallo, East Coast, Harold Jaffe, Luc Montagnier, Randy Shilts, The Story So Far, Ludwick Fleck, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Tim Piland New!
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- Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life by Steven Shapin on 5 pages
- AIDS: The Making of a Chronic Disease by Elizabeth Fee on 5 pages
- The Aids Reader (Meridian) by Nancy F. McKenzie on 5 pages
- The Time of AIDS: Social Analysis, Theory, and Method by Gilbert Herdt on 4 pages
- Last Served?: Gendering the HIV Pandemic (Social Aspects of AIDS) by Cindy Patton on 4 pages
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