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Examining the formation of scientific knowledge about the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, Alex Preda highlights the metaphors, narratives, and classifications which framed scientific hypotheses about the nature of the infectious agent and its transmission. Preda compares these arguments with those used in the scientific analysis of SARS. He demonstrates how scientific knowledge about epidemics is shaped by cultural narratives and categories of social thought through a detailed review of biomedical publications.
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This book examines the formation of scientific knowledge about the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and shows the broader cultural assumptions which grounded these knowledge. Alex Preda highlights the metaphors, narratives, and classifications which framed scientific hypotheses about the nature of the infectious agent and its transmission ways and compares these arguments with those used in the scientific knowledge about SARS. Through detailed rhetorical analysis of biomedical publications, the author shows how scientific knowledge about epidemics is shaped by cultural narratives and categories of social thought.
About the Author
Dr Alex Preda is Professor of Sociology at the University of Konstanz. He has taught at the universities of Bielefeld and Konstanz, Germany. He is co-editor of The Sociology of Financial Markets. This is his first book.
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0521837707
- ISBN 13 9780521837705
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages290
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