Impure Science: Aids, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge Volume 7 (Paperback)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS                                      

Introduction: Controversy, Credibility, and the Public Character of AIDS Research

The Crisis of Credibility and the Rise of the AIDS Movement
Analyzing AIDS Controversies
The Plan of the Book
Conceptualizing AIDS: Some Intellectual Debts

PART ONE: THE POLITICS OF
CAUSATION
1. The Nature of a New Threat                       

The Discovery of a "Gay Disease" (1981-1982)
Lifestyle vs. Virus (1982-1983)
The Triumph of Retrovirology (1982-1984)

2. HIV and the Consolidation of Certainty           
The Construction of Scientific Proof (1984-1986)
HIV as "Obligatory Passage Point"

3. Reopening the Causation Controversy             

From Deafening Silence to the Pages of Science (1987-1988)
Consolidation and Refinement (1989-1991)

4. The Debate That Wouldn't Die   
                 
The Controversy Reignites (1991-1992.)
The Dynamics of Closure: Whither the Controversy? (1992-1995)
Causation and Credibility

PART TWO: THE POLITICS OF TREATMENT

5. Points of Departure                             

Targeting a Retrovirus (1984-1986)
Clinical Trials Take Center Stage (1986-1987)

6. "Drugs into Bodies"                             

Gaining Access (1987-1988)
A Knowledge-Empowered Movement

7. The Critique of Pure Science                    

AZT and the Politics of Interpretation (1989-1990)
Activism and the Manufacture of Knowledge (1989-1991)

8. Dilemmas and Divisions in Science and Politics  

Combination Therapy and the "Surrogate Markers" Debate (1989-1992.)
Inside and Outside the System

9. Clinical Trials and Tribulations
The Search for New Directions (199z-1993)
Living with Uncertainty (1993-1995)

Conclusion: Credible Knowledge, Hierarchies of
Expertise, and the Politics of Participation in
Biomedicine                       

Science and the Struggle for Credibility
The Transformation of AIDS Research
The Legacy of AIDS Activism

METHODOLOGICAL APPENDIX             
NOTES                              
INDEX