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Few diseases have provoked as many wild moralistic leaps or stringent attempts to measure, classify, and define risk and treatment standards as AIDS. In this book, the author documents the emergence of a diverse range of community-based, nongovernmental, and civil society groups engaged in patient-focused AIDS advocacy worldwide.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Against Science and the Stigmatization of the "At-Risk" Body
3. Against Pharma and the Intellectual Propertization of Life
4. Against Governance and the Oligopolization of Power
5. Against Community and the Expertization of Activism
6. Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
References
Index

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    Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
    Publication Date: 26/04/2015
    ISBN13: 9781421415970, 978-1421415970
    ISBN10: 1421415976
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    Medicine: HIV/AIDS, retroviral diseases Public health and preventive medicine

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Few diseases have provoked as many wild moralistic leaps or stringent attempts to measure, classify, and define risk and treatment standards as AIDS. In this book, the author documents the emergence of a diverse range of community-based, nongovernmental, and civil society groups engaged in patient-focused AIDS advocacy worldwide.

    Table of Contents

    List of Tables and Figures
    Acknowledgments
    Abbreviations
    1. Introduction
    2. Against Science and the Stigmatization of the "At-Risk" Body
    3. Against Pharma and the Intellectual Propertization of Life
    4. Against Governance and the Oligopolization of Power
    5. Against Community and the Expertization of Activism
    6. Conclusion
    Appendix
    Notes
    References
    Index

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