The AIDS Conspiracy
(Sprache: Englisch)
Since the early days of the AIDS epidemic, many bizarre and dangerous hypotheses have been advanced to explain the origins of the disease. In this compelling book, Nicoli Nattrass explores the social and political factors prolonging the erroneous belief...
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Since the early days of the AIDS epidemic, many bizarre and dangerous hypotheses have been advanced to explain the origins of the disease. In this compelling book, Nicoli Nattrass explores the social and political factors prolonging the erroneous belief that the American government manufactured the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to be used as a biological weapon, as well as the myth's consequences for behavior, especially within African American and black South African communities. Contemporary AIDS denialism, the belief that HIV is harmless and that antiretroviral drugs are the true cause of AIDS, is a more insidious AIDS conspiracy theory. Advocates of this position make a "conspiratorial move" against HIV science by implying its methods cannot be trusted and that untested, alternative therapies are safer than antiretrovirals. These claims are genuinely life-threatening, as tragically demonstrated in South Africa when the delay of antiretroviral treatment resulted in nearly 333,000 AIDS deaths and 180,000 HIV infections--a tragedy of stunning proportions.Nattrass identifies four symbolically powerful figures ensuring the lifespan of AIDS denialism: the hero scientist (dissident scientists who lend credibility to the movement); the cultropreneur (alternative therapists who exploit the conspiratorial move as a marketing mechanism); the living icon (individuals who claim to be living proof of AIDS denialism's legitimacy); and the praise-singer (journalists who broadcast movement messages to the public). Nattrass also describes how pro-science activists have fought back by deploying empirical evidence and political credibility to resist AIDS conspiracy theories, which is part of the crucial project to defend evidence-based medicine.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The AIDS Conspiracy “
Acknowledgments1. The Conspiratorial Move Against HIV Science and Its Consequences2. AIDS Origin Conspiracy Theories in the United States and South Africa3. Who Believes AIDS Conspiracy Theories and Why Leadership Matters4. Science5. Science6. Hero Scientists7. Defending the Imprimatur of Science: Duesberg and the Medical Hypotheses Saga8. The Conspiratorial Move and the Struggle for Evidence-based MedicineNotesReferencesIndex
Autoren-Porträt von Nicoli Nattrass
Nicoli Nattrass is director of the AIDS and Society Research Unit at the University of Cape Town and visiting professor at Yale University. She has a doctorate in economics from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She is a recognized expert on the political economy of antiretroviral treatment. Her research helped change South African AIDS policy, and her current work on AIDS denialism and conspiracy theories--both of which undermine scientific approaches to HIV prevention and treatment--have informed the work of AIDS scientists and activists across the globe.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Nicoli Nattrass
- 240 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 23,7 x 15,9 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- ISBN-10: 0231149123
- ISBN-13: 9780231149129
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.03.2012
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Englisch
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In this important book, Nattrass...deftly examines widespread misconceptions about the origin, transmission, and health effects of AIDS. Publishers Weekly 12/5/2011 A remarkably well argued case against unscientific approaches to AIDS and a brilliant defense of evidence-based medicine. Library Journal (starred review) 2/15/2012 The AIDS Conspiracy is essential reading for anyone who is curious about why some people will not accept scientific facts about the nature, origin and lethality of HIV. -- Robin A. Weiss Nature 2/23/2012 a highly accessible, impeccably referenced, scholarly work, which should be essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the role of conspiracy theories in the social and political history of the AIDS epidemic. -- Neil Bennet Lancet 8/12/2012 Nattrass lucidly examines the social and scientific stresses that confound the public when confronted with pseudoscientifc propaganda in life-threatening scenarios. Highly recommended. Choice 10/1/2012
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