AIDS Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism

Name: AIDS Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism
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ISBN: 9780262530798

ISBN-10: 0262530791

ISBN-13: 9780262530798

Edition: 1988

Authors: Douglas Crimp

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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 book on the subject that takes this battle over meaning as its premise. Contributors include Leo Bersani, author of The Freudian Body; Simon Watney, who serves on the board of the Health Education…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/29/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Douglas Crimp is Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester. He is the author of On the Museum's Ruins and Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics, both published by the MIT Press.