AIDS, rhetoric, and medical knowledge

• 作者: Preda, Alex,
• 出版: Cambridg, UK ;New York : Cambridge University Press 2005.
• 稽核項: 1 online resource (xi, 276 pages) :illustrations.
• 標題: HEALTH & FITNESS , Medicine Language. , HEALTH & FITNESS Diseases -- AIDS & HIV. , MEDICAL , AIDS & HIV. , Medicine , Médecine Langage. , Rhétorique. , Aspect social. , AIDS (Disease) , Médecine , AIDS (Disease) Social aspects. , Social medicine. , MEDICAL AIDS & HIV. , Language. , Social aspects. , Electronic books. , Sida , DiseasesAIDS & HIV. , Sida Aspect social. , Langage. , Rhetoric.
• ISBN: 0521837707 , 9780521837705
• ISBN: 0521837707
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• 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-268) and indexes. AIDS and scientific knowledge -- Making up the rules of seeing : opportunistic infections and the new syndrome -- The economy of risk categories -- The etiologic agent and the rhetoric of scientific debate -- Retrovirus vs. retrovirus : the arguments for HTLV-III, LAV, and HIV -- The spatial configurations of AIDS risk -- Who is how much : from qualities to quantities of AIDS risk -- In lieu of a conclusion : do rhetorical practices matter?
• 摘要: This book shows how scientific knowledge about epidemics is shaped by the broader culture of advanced societies. The latter includes metaphors, narratives, and social classifications. The book examines the formation of scientific knowledge about the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and highlights common features with the SARS epidemic.
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