Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Paralysis or Breakthrough: The Making and Unmaking of AZT -- 2 Articulating the (Im)possible: The Contradictory Fantasies of "Curing" AIDS -- 3 Temporality and the Politics of AIDS Science -- or, How to Kill Time in an Epidemic -- 4 Power and Ambivalence: The Conjunctural Crises of Technomedicine and AIDS Treatment Activism -- 5 An Epistemology of Curing -- Appendix: A Summary of the Major Treatment-Related Stories Reported on Network Television News, 1985-1992 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.