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AIDS, homophobia and biomedical discourse: An epidemic of signification
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The authors need to understand that AIDS is and will remain a provisional and deeply problematic signifier and use what science gives us in ways that are selective, self-conscious and pragmatic.Abstract:
(1987). AIDS, homophobia and biomedical discourse: An epidemic of signification. Cultural Studies: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 263-305.read more
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The archaeology of knowledge
TL;DR: We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now as mentioned in this paper, and book is the window to open the new world.
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Understanding popular culture
TL;DR: The Jeaning of America is a posthumous publication based on a manuscript originally written by Kevin Glynn in 2013 and then edited by Jonathan Gray and Pamela Wilson in 2016.
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Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine
TL;DR: The impact of social violence upon people living with HIV in the US and Rwanda is described and the social structures that put people in harm's way are described.
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The boundaries of the self and the unhealthy other: reflections on health, culture and AIDS.
TL;DR: It is argued that 'health' is a key concept in the fashioning of identity for the modern and contemporary middle class and that the 'unhealthy' come to be represented as the other of this self.
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Stigmatization, scapegoating and discrimination in sexually transmitted diseases: Overcoming ‘them’ and ‘us’
TL;DR: A primary requirement is to recognize that the authors are all living with AIDS, whether infected or affected by it; that is, in the context of AIDS, it is imperative that they overcome any divisions into 'them' and 'us'.
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The Archaeology of Knowledge
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define the Statement and the Archive and define the Enunciative Function 3. The Description of Staements 4. Contradictions 5. Change and Transformations 6. The Formation of Concepts 7. Conclusion Conclusion Index
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Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts
Bruno Latour,Steve Woolgar +1 more
TL;DR: The authors presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist, drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other "texts,"' and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the time being, too expensive to change.
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The archaeology of knowledge
TL;DR: We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now as mentioned in this paper, and book is the window to open the new world.
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Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and mucosal candidiasis in previously healthy homosexual men: evidence of a new acquired cellular immunodeficiency.
Michael S. Gottlieb,Robert W. Schroff,Howard M. Schanker,J.D. Weisman,P.T. Fan,Robert A. Wolf,Andrew Saxon +6 more
TL;DR: Analysis of peripheral-blood T-cell subpopulations suggested that cytomegalovirus infection was an important factor in the pathogenesis of the immunodeficient state.
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Illness as Metaphor
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe what it's really like to emigrate to the kingdom of the ill and to live there, but the punitive or sentimental fantasies concocted about that situation; not real geography but stereotypes of national character.