Activism and Marginalization in the AIDS Crisis shows readers how the advent of HIV-disease has brought into question the utility of certain forms of activism as they relate to understanding and fighting the social impacts of disease. This informative and powerful book is centrally concerned about the ways in which institutionally governed social constructions of HIV/AIDS affect policy and public images of the disease more so than activist efforts. It asserts that an accounting of the power institutional structures have over the dominant social constructions of HIV disease is fundamental to adequate forms of present and future AIDS activism.

Contents
Foreword

• Introduction: Activism and Marginalization in the AIDS Crisis
• Gatekeeping Through Media Format: Strategies of Voice for the HIV-Positive via Human Interest News Formats and Organizations
• Truth and Deception in AIDS Information Brochures
• The Social Construction of Target Populations and the Transformation of Prison-Based AIDS Policy: A Descriptive Case Study
• The Problem with Making AIDS Comfortable: Federal Policy Making and the Rhetoric of Innocence
• A Citizens' AIDS Task Force: Overcoming Obstacles
• AIDS and the New Medical Gaze: Bio-Politics, AIDS, and Homosexuality
• Index