“To promote, encourage or condone:” Science, activism and the political role of moralism in the formation of needle exchange policy in Springfield, Massachusetts, 1998–2005
This dissertation examines the cultural and political forces that shape and direct AIDS policy in the United States. Through a multi-sited, ethnographic research project in Springfield, Massachusetts, a post-industrial city with the 11th highest per capita AIDS rate in the nation, this project inves...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2009
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3349706 |