Impure Science
  Acknowledgments

 expand sectionIntroduction  Controversy, Credibility, and the Public Character of Aids Research

 collapse sectionPart 1  The Politics of Causation
 expand sectionChapter 1  The Nature of a New Threat
 collapse sectionChapter 2  HIV and the Consolidation of Certainty
 collapse sectionThe Construction of Scientific Proof (1984–1986)
 •The Blossoming of AIDS Research
 •Citation and the Construction of Facts
 •Blood and Chimps
 expand sectionHIV as "Obligatory Passage Point"
 expand sectionChapter 3  Reopening The Causation Controversy
 expand sectionChapter 4  The Debate That Wouldn't Die

 collapse sectionPart 2  The Politics of Treatment
 expand sectionChapter 5  Points of Departure
 expand sectionChapter 6  "Drugs Into Bodies"
 expand sectionChapter 7  The Critique of Pure Science
 expand sectionChapter 8  Dilemmas and Divisions in Science and Politics
 expand sectionChapter 9  Clinical Trials and Tribulations
 expand sectionConclusion  Credible Knowledge Hierarchies of Expertise, and the Politics of Participation in Biomedicine

 expand sectionNotes
 expand sectionMethodological Appendix
 expand sectionIndex
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