April 9: 7:00pm – Uneasy Medicine. The Final Reading for “Uneasy Medicine”

Uneasy Medicine. The final reading for Uneasy Medicine, a chapter from Joanna Crane’s book Scrambling for Africa:  AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science 

The chapter, called “The Molecular Politics of HIV,” continues our examination of the relationship between science and politics.  In this chapter, Crane argues that the geopolitics of the AIDS epidemic is present at the molecular level, in the laboratories where our knowledge about the molecular biology of HIV and antiretrovirals is produced.  “The result,” she explains, “is a kind of ‘molecular politics’ in which the global inequalities of the AIDS epidemic are manifest at the most minute scale, embedded within the very materials and tools scientists use to study HIV.”

Stay tuned for news about our final Uneasy Medicine meeting, a film presentation on May 14th!