The New Era of AIDS : HIV and Medicine in Times of Transition /
In the mid-1990s new treatment options introduced a new era of AIDS. This book is a sophisticated study of the shaping of this new era. Well informed by ethnographic as well as statistical data, it reveals the complex and ambiguous processes of change in the field of HIV/AIDS and beyond. The investi...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2002.
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| Series: | International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine ;
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1: Methods and Study Populations. 1.1. Methods: Narratives and Numbers. 1.2. Study Populations
- 2: Bodies and Boundaries. The Immunity Reduction of Opressed People. 2.1. Self. 2.2. Time. 2.3. Body
- 3: Translating Medicine to Ordinary People. A Balancing Act. 3.1. Consuming Medicine. 3.2. Social Science and Medicine. 3.3. Interacting from Equal to Equal? 3.4. Authority Outsourced
- 4: Hit Early and Hard? One Day Things Were Good. 4.1. Usage of Antiretroviral Treatment. 4.2. The Promise of Power. 4.3. Negotiating Treatment. 4.4. Sharing Uncertainty. 4.5. Treating the Compliant Patient. 4.6. Anticipating the New Realism
- 5: Fighting over Patients and Power. From My Worm's-Eye View; . 5.1. Struggles at the Interface. 5.2. Knowledge is Power is Money. 5.3. Who Cures? Who Cares?- 6: Evidence vs. Experience. Twenty Years from Now We Might Be Judged. 6.1. Science and Art. 6.2. Evidence-Based Medicine. 6.3. The View from Below. 6.4. The Voice of Experience. 6.5. The Medium is the Message. 6.6. State-of-the-Art Ignorance. 6.7. Who Controls Medicine? 6.8. Evidence-Based Medicine as a Trojan Horse? 7: Conclusions
- References
- Index.