Broadsheets Summaries – April 15-May 11 2012
Welcome to Broadsheets! Here you will find “cut and clip” summaries of the HIV/AIDS-related news moving quickly through the web-o-sphere. The first posts will track the news making its way through virtual reportage space. Later, we will contribute critical commentary about the news-making process and how it shapes the framing of, and responses …
As bards of the Broadsheets, we reinvigorate the way newspapers offered dimensions to lay out societal trends. As such, the aim of this section is to re-draw and attend to the ways in which web content proliferates and thereby makes meaningful the priorities and directions within the HIV/AIDS-related field and global health more broadly. Our efforts intend to develop …
Ordinary Genomes: Science, Citizenship, and Genetic Identities?
by Karen-Sue Taussig?
Duke University Press, 2009
264 pp., $22.95 (paperback)
Reviewed by Abigail Baim-Lance (Fashion Institute of Technology/SUNY and Researcher, New York State Department of Health, AIDS Institute)
At its brightest moments, Karen-Sue Taussig’s Ordinary Genomes: Science, Citizenship, and Genetic Identities (2009) deftly challenges universalist assumptions about the genetic sciences. Taussig …