AIDS, rhetoric, and medical knowledge / Alex Preda.

Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

xi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

AIDS and scientific knowledge -- Making up the rules of seeing : opportunistic infections and the new syndrome -- The economy of risk categories -- The etiologic agent and the rhetoric of scientific debate -- Retrovirus vs. retrovirus : the arguments for HTLV-III, LAV, and HIV -- The spatial configurations of AIDS risk -- Who is how much : from qualities to quantities of AIDS risk -- In lieu of a conclusion : do rhetorical practices matter?

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-268) and indexes.