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(Medicine and Society. Vol. 7.) By Steven Epstein. 466 pp. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1996. $29.95. ISBN 0-520-20233-3.

Important events command our attention, and complex issues require careful analysis. In both respects, the AIDS epidemic is a durable subject for investigation. Popular books have considered the social history of the epidemic, and many have addressed the scientific and medical aspects of AIDS. In contrast, there are few scholarly analyses of the sociological aspects of AIDS. This will not be true for long, because the behavior of the virus, the people most affected by it, and the politics of the social response to AIDS provide fertile ground for social scientists.

In Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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