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
Aids, Rhetoric, And Medical Knowledge
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- Cambridge University Press
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- English
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- 289
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