AIDS and the Body Politic: Biomedicine and Sexual Difference / Edition 1

by Catherine Waldby

Overview

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415141307
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/05/1996
Series:	Writing Corporealities Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Catherine Waldby currently teaches in the Communications and Cultural Studies programme and the Women’s Studies programme at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia.

Table of Contents

1 INTRODUCTION: TOTAL WAR 2 THE BIOMEDICAL IMAGINATION AND THE ANATOMICAL BODY: AIDS AND THE NATURE/ CULTURE DISTINCTION 3 THE PRIMAL SCENE OF IMMUNOLOGY 4 EPIDEMIOLOGY AND THE BODY POLITIC 5 TECHNOLOGIES OF THE BODY POLITIC: THE HIV ANTIBODY TEST 6 CONCLUSION: SEXUAL IDENTITY AND CONTAMINATION