Impure science
Subtitle: AIDS, activism, and the politics of knowledge
By: Steven Epstein.
Series: Medicine and society
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
Subjects: AIDS (Disease) -- Research -- Social aspects -- United States
Description: Epstein shows the extent to which AIDS research has been a social and political phenomenon and how the AIDS movement has transformed biomedical research practices through its capacity to garner credibility by novel strategies.
Notes: A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-443) and index.