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Plague Doctors Responding to the AIDS Epidemic in France and America
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By Jamie L. Feldman
ISBN: 0-89789-385-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-89789-385-5
288 pages, figures, glossary,
Bergin & Garvey
Publication: 10/30/1995
List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • How the medical community defines and responds to differences between AIDS and other diseases lies at the heart of this volume...This book's primary aim is to develop an understanding of AIDS and the medical community in situ, rather than isolated from its social, historical, or political contexts while contributing to an anthropological understanding of the biomedical world.
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    Choice
  • This research-based scholarly book is essential reading for a wide range of persons. The medical specialist and the internist, nurse and public health professional, researcher and international health analyst, the pharmacist and student, as well as educated AIDS patients will find in it new perspectives and valuable information. The work makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of AIDS and of ourselves as well.
    —
    Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal
Description: Plague Doctors highlights culturally based differences between French and American medicine, not only in health care delivery, but in the way each system constructs the interaction between disease and the human body. This work challenges the assumption that biomedicine is uniform across the western world. The author, a medical doctor and anthropologist, provides an ethnographic look into the daily experiences of physicians and researchers, examining how members of the French and American medical communities construct their models of AIDS through discourse and practice. The book is based on a comparative study of two AIDS clinics, one in Chicago and the other in Paris. Participant observation conducted at the clinics and interviews with physicians and researchers outside the sites yielded important insights into the world of AIDS medicine.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Theory, Method and Context
  • Cultural Construction--Choosing Among Stories
  • Surveying the Contextual Ground
  • Constructing AIDS
  • The Building Blocks of AIDS
  • The Stories of AIDS--Natural History and Staging
  • Treatment
  • Paradoxes and Patients' Stories
  • AIDS as Constructor
  • AIDS Bodies, AIDS Patients
  • Health Care and Medical Practice
  • Good Science, Bad Science
  • Identity and the AIDS Doctor
  • Medical Differences, Different Medicines
  • The French Are Different: French and American Medicine in the Context of AIDS
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix: Statistical Description of Informants
  • Glossary of Terms
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 94-43601
LCC Class: RA644
Dewey Class: 361.1
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