How to have theory in an epidemic : cultural chronicles of AIDS / Paula A. Treichler.

Durham [N.C.] ; London : Duke University Press, 1999.

xi, 477 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

AIDS, homophobia, and biomedical discourse: an epidemic of signification -- The burdens of history: gender and representation in AIDS discourse, 1981-1988 -- AIDS and HIV infection in the Third World: a first world chronicle -- Seduced and terrorized: AIDS in the media -- AIDS, HIV, and the cultural construction of reality -- AIDS narratives on television: whose story? -- AIDS, Africa, and cultural theory -- Beyond Cosmo: AIDS, identity, and inscriptions of gender -- How to have theory in an epidemic: the evolution of AIDS, treatment and activism.

Includes index and bibliography: p. [387]-451.