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AIDS and the Body Politic: Biomedicine and Sexual Difference (Corporealities S.)

AIDS and the Body Politic: Biomedicine and Sexual Difference (Corporealities S.)

by Catherine Waldby (Author)

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First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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20+ in stock

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 184
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 05 Sep 1996
ISBN 10: 0415141303
ISBN 13: 9780415141307

Media Reviews
AIDS and the Body Politic traces the fascinating yet disturbing shape of how culturally desirable is the clean, self-identical and sharply bounded (male) body, protected against infection, and how culturally horrifying are open, uncontrolled (female and gay male) bodies, prone to collecting and proliferating infection. This work is an important and fresh analysis of how cultural material informs biomedical and epidemiological models and measures..
- Emily Martin