AIDS: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Activism
by Douglas Crimp, Leo Bersani
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The literature on AIDS has attempted to teach us the "facts" about this new disease or to provide a narrative account of scientific discovery and developing public health policy. But AIDS has precipitated a crisis that is not primarily medical, or even social and political; AIDS has precipitated a crisis of signification the "meaning" of AIDS is hotly contested in all of the discourses that conceptualize it and seek to respond to it . AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism is the first show more book on the subject that takes this battle over meaning as its premise. Contributors Leo Bersani, author of The Freudian Body; Simon Watney, who serves on the board of the Health Education Committee of London's Terrence Higgens Trust; Jan Zita Grover, medical editor at San Francisco General Hospital; Suki Ports, former executive director of the New York City Minority Task Force on AIDS; and Sander Gilman, author of Difference and Pathology. Also included are essays by Paula A. Treichler, who teaches in the Medical School and in communications at the University of Illinois; Carol Leigh, a member of COYOTE and contributor to Sex Work; and Max Navarre, editor of the People With AIDS Coalition monthly Newsline. In addition to these essays, the book contains a portfolio of manifestos, articles, letters, and photographs from the publications of the PWA Coalition, an interview with three members of the AIDS discrimination unit of the New York City Commission on Human Rights; and presentations for the independent video documentaries on AIDS, Testing the Limits and Bright Eyes. An October Book. show lessTags
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Douglas Crimp is Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History and Acting Co-Director, Visual and Cultural Studies Program at the University of Rochester
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Leo Bersani is professor emeritus of French at University of California, Berkeley, and the author of numerous books, most recently Thoughts and Things, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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- AIDS: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Activism
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- Nonfiction, LGBTQ+, General Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies
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- 362.1 — Society, government, & culture Social problems and social services Social Welfare People with physical illnesses
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- RA644 .A25 .A357 — Medicine Public aspects of medicine Public aspects of medicine Public health. Hygiene. Preventive medicine Disease (Communicable and noninfectious) and public
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