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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Controversy, Credibility, and the Public Character of AIDS Research | |
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| The Nature of a New Threat | |
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| The Discovery of a "Gay Disease" (1981-1982) | |
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| Lifestyle vs. Virus (1982-1983) | |
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| The Triumph of Retrovirology (1982-1984) | |
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| HIV and the Consolidation of Certainty | |
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| The Construction of Scientific Proof (1984-1986) | |
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| HIV as "Obligatory Passage Point" | |
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| Reopening the Causation Controversy | |
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| From Deafening Silence to the Pages of Science (1987-1988) | |
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| Consolidation and Refinement (1989-1991) | |
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| The Debate That Wouldn't Die | |
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| The Controversy Reignites (1991-1992) | |
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| The Dynamics of Closure: Whither the Controversy? (1992-1995) | |
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| Causation and Credibility | |
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| Points of Departure | |
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| Targeting a Retrovirus (1984-1986) | |
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| Clinical Trials Take Center Stage (1986-1987) | |
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| "Drugs into Bodies" | |
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| Gaining Access (1987-1988) | |
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| A Knowledge-Empowered Movement | |
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| The Critique of Pure Science | |
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| AZT and the Politics of Interpretation (1989-1990) | |
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| Activism and the Manufacture of Knowledge (1989-1991) | |
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| Dilemmas and Divisions in Science and Politics | |
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| Combination Therapy and the "Surrogate Markers" Debate (1989-1992) | |
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| Inside and Outside the System | |
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| Clinical Trials and Tribulations | |
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| The Search for New Directions (1992-1993) | |
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| Living with Uncertainty (1993-1995) | |
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| Conclusion: Credible Knowledge, Hierarchies of Expertise, and the Politics of Participation in Biomedicine | |
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| Methodological Appendix | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |