"Unstable frontiers: Medicine, the media, and the cultural politics of ""curing"" AIDS"

"This study examines how AIDS treatment issues (e.g. the politics of biomedical research, social representations of the ""AIDS body,"" the alternative treatment movement, AIDS treatment activism) are represented in the media, and argues that the overall discourse of ""curing AIDS"" is organized around the totalizing and contradictory narratives of AIDS' curability/incurability, and that this binaristic mode of thinking has important historical--in fact, ""conjunctural""--effects upon mainstream medicine's historical position of authority."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communication

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Erni, John Nguyet

Contributors dc:contributor

• Grossberg, Lawrence

• Speech Communication
• Health Sciences, Public Health
• Mass Communications

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1992 Erni, John Nguyet

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9236453
(UMI)AAI9236453

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/21289