Title The AIDS conspiracy : science fights back / Nicoli Nattrass.

Publication Info.	New York : Columbia University Press, [2012]
	©2012

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Description	1 online resource (viii, 225 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-216) and index.
Contents	The conspiratorial move against HIV science and its consequences -- AIDS origin conspiracy theories in the United States and South Africa -- Who believes AIDS conspiracy theories and why leadership matters -- Science, politics, and credibility : David Gilbert fights AIDS conspiracy beliefs in US prisons -- Science, conspiracy theory, and the South African AIDS policy tragedy -- Hero scientists, cultropreneurs, living icons, and praise-singers : AIDS denialism as community -- Defending the imprimatur of science : Duesberg and the medical hypotheses saga -- The conspiratorial move and the struggle for evidence-based medicine.
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Summary	Millions of people across the globe erroneously believe America manufactured the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to be used as a biological weapon. Ironically, the idea grew from a real conspiracy theory hatched by Russian and East German intelligence officers in the mid-1980s, in the hopes of spreading misinformation about the disease. Yet while the cold war is over, the biological weapons myth continues to resonate on both sides of the Atlantic. Nicoli Nattrass explores the social and political factors prolonging this fiction, especially within African American and black South Africa.
Subject	AIDS (Disease) -- Transmission.
	HIV infections -- United States.
	HIV infections -- South Africa.
	AIDS (Disease) -- United States.
	AIDS (Disease) -- South Africa.
	Medical policy -- United States.
	Medical policy -- South Africa.
	Conspiracy theories.
	Public opinion -- United States.
	Public opinion -- South Africa.
	HIV Infections.
	Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
	Health Policy.
	Public Opinion.
	South Africa.
	United States.
	HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- AIDS & HIV.
	MEDICAL -- AIDS & HIV.
	AIDS (Disease) (OCoLC)fst00793808
	AIDS (Disease) -- Transmission. (OCoLC)fst00793968
	Conspiracy theories. (OCoLC)fst01748943
	HIV infections. (OCoLC)fst00949871
	Medical policy. (OCoLC)fst01014505
	Public opinion. (OCoLC)fst01082785
	South Africa. (OCoLC)fst01204616
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Columbia University. Press.
Other Form:	Print version: Nattrass, Nicoli. AIDS conspiracy. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012 9780231149129 (DLC) 2011045297 (OCoLC)730413677
ISBN	9780231520256 (electronic bk.)
	0231520255 (electronic bk.)

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