The New Era of AIDS: HIV and Medicine in Times of Transition

Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1: Methods and Study Populations. 1.1. Methods: Narratives and Numbers. 1.2. Study Populations. 2: Bodies and Boundaries. The Immunity Reduction of Opressed People; M. Pedrini. 2.1. Self. 2.2. Time. 2.3. Body. 3: Translating Medicine to Ordinary People. A Balancing Act; A. Meier. 3.1. Consuming Medicine. 3.2. Social Science and Medicine. 3.3. Interacting from Equal to Equal? 3.4. Authority Outsourced. 4: Hit Early and Hard? One Day Things Were Good; J. Dijon. 4.1. Usage of Antiretroviral Treatment. 4.2. The Promise of Power. 4.3. Negotiating Treatment. 4.4. Sharing Uncertainty. 4.5. Treating the Compliant Patient. 4.6. Anticipating the New Realism. 5: Fighting over Patients and Power. From My Worm's-Eye View; M. Mader. 5.1. Struggles at the Interface. 5.2. Knowledge is Power is Money. 5.3. Who Cures? Who Cares? 6: Evidence vs. Experience. Twenty Years from Now We Might Be Judged; L. Granges. 6.1. Science and Art. 6.2. Evidence-Based Medicine. 6.3. The View from Below. 6.4. The Voice of Experience. 6.5. The Medium is the Message. 6.6. State-of-the-Art Ignorance. 6.7. Who Controls Medicine? 6.8. Evidence-Based Medicine as a Trojan Horse? 7: Conclusions. References. Index.