As the banking crisis and its effects on the world economy have made plain, the stock market is of colossal importance to our livelihoods....

Book DescriptionExamining the formation of scientific knowledge about the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, Alex Preda highlights the metaphors, narratives, and classifications which framed scientific hypotheses about the nature of the infectious agent and itstransmission. Preda compares these arguments with those used in the scientific analysis of SARS....