AIDS, Rhetoric, and Medical Knowledge Hardback - Tapa dura

Preda

 
9780521837705: AIDS, Rhetoric, and Medical Knowledge Hardback

Sinopsis

This 2005 book shows how scientific knowledge about epidemics is shaped by the broader culture of advanced societies. The latter includes metaphors, narratives, and social classifications. The book examines the formation of scientific knowledge about the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and highlights common features with the SARS epidemic.

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Dr Alex Preda is Professor of Sociology at the University of Konstanz. He has taught at the universities of Bielefeld and Konstanz, Germany. He is co-editor of The Sociology of Financial Markets. This is his first book.

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