AIDS has spawned diverse medical and scientific approaches, with emphasis shifting from immunology, virology, and the like and each constructing the discourse in various ways. In common parlance there was a growing panic about the global nature of this pandemic, the sense that its spread was rapid, and the paradoxical assumption that on the one hand no-one was safe; yet that those ‘responsible’ for AIDS belonged to certain marginalized groups. It was in the climate of this growing...
