AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism

by Joan Copjec and Douglas Crimp

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262530791
• ISBN13: 9780262530798
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher