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.U of I OnlyETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permissio