List of Tables and Illustrations Glossary Acknowledgments < br>PREFACE CHAPTER I The Sociology of Knowledge on HIV and AIDS CHAPTER II The Medicalization of Gay Desire in San Francisco (1974-1983) CHAPTER III The Early Demographics of AIDS: Case Studies of The First Nine Gay Male AIDS Cases in San Francisco CHAPTER IV More Gay Men Reported With AIDS in San Francisco: 15 Case Studies from 1981 CHAPTER V The Mechanics of AIDS Surveillance: An Historical Critique of The Demography of Risk CHAPTER VI AIDS Surveillance Statistics: Changing The Subjects and Object of Study CHAPTER VII Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index
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
"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 theDamned: 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: TheTragic 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
Ask a Question About this Product More... |