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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-195) and index
Introduction: Where Does AIDS Come from? -- - Metaphors of Science -- - Two Models of Health and Disease -- - French Novels and the Construction of Otherness -- - Degeneracy and Inversion: The Male Homosexual as Internal Other -- - The Discourse of Degenerescence -- - Inventing the Male "Homosexual" -- - Literature as Medicine, or Medicine as Literature? -- - Gender Indecision and Cultural Anxiety: Outing Zola -- - Theory and Practice of the Experimental Novel -- - Naturalism as Heterosexuality -- - Queering Napoleon III? -- - The Rambling Degenerate and the Instability of Authorship -- - Reclaiming Disease and Infection: Jean Genet and the Politics of the Border -- - Disease, Vermin, and Abjection -- - Crossing Metaphorical Borders, or Contaminating Language -- - Literal Borders -- - A Cultural History of AIDS Discourse: France and the United States -- - What AIDS Criticism? -- - AIDS Representations -- - Constructing the AIDS Sufferer -- - AIDS and the Unraveling of Modernity: The Example of Herve Guibert -- - Herve Guibert -- - Returning the Doctor's Gaze -- - The Diseased Subject -- - The Discourse of Disease and the Disease of Discourse -- - Gossip, Rumors, and the Margins of Modernity -- - Conclusion: French Universalism and the Question of Community
