Dissecting the social body: Social inequality through AIDS counter-narratives

Public Understanding of Science

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 491-505

  Mackenzie, Sonja ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bodies and science; discourses of science; HIV AIDS research; public understanding of science; sociology of health and illness

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PARANOID PSYCHOSIS; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOLOGY; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; UNITED STATES; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; PARANOID DISORDERS; POLITICS; PREJUDICE; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960007729     PISSN: 09636625     EISSN: 13616609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963662510392297     Document Type: Article

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