Description
Book SynopsisSeeks to understand the relationship between HIV, medical technologies, and ideas about the body. This book is suitable for those who are engaged in questions of the social and ethical dimensions of biomedicine, biotechnology, and genomics.
Trade Review"This concise, provocative book explains its terms and makes it significant theoretical contributions lightly, such that despite the complex science and advanced theoretical debates involved, it would be useful for many university courses."
-- Vicki Bell * Sociology of Health and Illness *
"Sociologist Rosengarten takes on complex materials relating to HIV interventions, especially how HIV preventions and treatments are conceived, interpreted, and practiced."
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
1. Introduction: HIV, Information, and Flesh
2. Imagination, Diagnostics, and the Materialization of HIV
3. HIV: A Synergy of Biological Matter, Technological Matter, and Publics
4. The "Informed Matter" of HIV Prevention
5. The Human Host: Performative and Relational Difference
6. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
