Name Cindy Patton Role Sociologist | ||
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Nominations Lambda Literary Award for AIDS Books Inventing AIDS, L A Plays Itself/Boys in the Sa, Globalizing AIDS, Fatal advice, Cinematic Identity |
Cindy patton the press and the press release inventing the crystal meth hiv connection
Cindy Patton (born February 12, 1956) is an American sociologist and historian specializing in the history of the AIDS epidemic. A former faculty member at Temple University and Emory University, she currently teaches at Simon Fraser University, where she held the Canada Research Chair in Community, Culture, and Health from 2003 to 2014. Her work has appeared in Criticism, the Feminist Review, and the International Review of Qualitative Research, and she co-edited a special edition of Cultural Studies on French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu.
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- Cindy patton the press and the press release inventing the crystal meth hiv connection
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Patton is a graduate of Appalachian State University, Harvard University, and the University of Massachusetts. She received the Stonewall Book Award in 1986 for her book Sex and Germs: The Politics of AIDS, and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in 1991 for Inventing AIDS.
