| Impure Science |
| Acknowledgments |
| Introduction Controversy, Credibility, and the Public Character of Aids Research |
| Part 1 The Politics of Causation |
| Chapter 1 The Nature of a New Threat |
| Chapter 2 HIV and the Consolidation of Certainty |
| Chapter 3 Reopening The Causation Controversy |
| Chapter 4 The Debate That Wouldn't Die |
| The Controversy Reignites (1991–1992) |
| The Dynamics of Closure: Whither the Controversy? (1992–1995) |
| • | The Definitive Study? |
| • | The Terms of the Debate |
| Causation and Credibility |
| Part 2 The Politics of Treatment |
| Chapter 5 Points of Departure |
| Chapter 6 "Drugs Into Bodies" |
| Chapter 7 The Critique of Pure Science |
| Chapter 8 Dilemmas and Divisions in Science and Politics |
| Chapter 9 Clinical Trials and Tribulations |
| Conclusion Credible Knowledge Hierarchies of Expertise, and the Politics of Participation in Biomedicine |
| Notes |
| Methodological Appendix |
| Index |