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The impact of AIDS cannot be adequately measured by epidemiology alone. As the editors of this volume argue, AIDS must be understood as a 'disease of society' which is challenging and changing society profoundly.

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This book, first published in 1991, argues that AIDS is a 'disease of society', which is challenging and changing society profoundly.

Workers at Risk is a powerful and moving documentary of workers routinely exposed to toxic chemicals. Products and services we all depend on--glass bottles, computers, processed foods and fresh flowers, dry cleaning, medicines, even sculpture and silkscreened toys--are produced by workers in constant contact with more than 63, 000 commercial chemicals. For many of them, the risk of death is a way of life. More than seventy of them speak here o...

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Dangerous Diagnostics is a powerful study of the pervasiveness of diagnostic testing and the potential it offers institutions to classify, categorize, and ultimately control individuals. Nelkin and Tancredi explore the ethical, social, and legal implications of cutting-edge technologies that can lead to new forms of discrimination in the name of standardized, objective measurements. They caution against the creation of an underclass deemed une...

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Explores the values, assumptions, and consequences of the circulation of DNA in popular culture