Indirect Action
Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism
Lisa Diedrich
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Lisa Diedrich explores how and why illness was so significant to the social, political, and institutional transformation beginning in the 1960s through the emergence of AIDS in the United States. Indirect Action places illness in the leading role in the production of thought during the emergence of AIDS, ultimately showing the critical interconnectedness of illness and political and critical thought
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Lisa Diedrich is associate professor of women’s and gender studies at State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is the author of Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness (Minnesota, 2007).
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