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"Unstable frontiers: Medicine, the media, and the cultural politics of ""curing"" AIDS"

Erni, John Nguyet

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Title
"Unstable frontiers: Medicine, the media, and the cultural politics of ""curing"" AIDS"
Author(s)
Erni, John Nguyet
Issue Date
1992
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Grossberg, Lawrence
Department of Study
Communication
Discipline
Communication
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
  • Speech Communication
  • Health Sciences, Public Health
  • Mass Communications
Language
eng
Abstract
"This study examines how AIDS treatment issues (e.g. the politics of biomedical research, social representations of the ""AIDS body,"" the alternative treatment movement, AIDS treatment activism) are represented in the media, and argues that the overall discourse of ""curing AIDS"" is organized around the totalizing and contradictory narratives of AIDS' curability/incurability, and that this binaristic mode of thinking has important historical--in fact, ""conjunctural""--effects upon mainstream medicine's historical position of authority."
Type of Resource
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Copyright 1992 Erni, John Nguyet

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