He is widely published, and has written three books, ''Learning By Heart: AIDS and Schoolchildren in America's Communities
, with David L. Kirp, Marlene Strong Franks, Jonathan Simon, Doug Conaway, and John Lewis (1989), Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge
(1996), and Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research
(2007). Impure Science
has been reviewed by the New York Times
, The Washington Post, and others. In 2009, Inclusion'' won the
Distinguished Scholarly Book Award of the
American Sociological Association.
Impure Science discusses how
AIDS patients in the 1980s were able to transform their status from being a
disease constituency to being experts in experience. AIDS activism was seen by many as being the template for patient and health groups' activities. The book won the
C. Wright Mills Award for the best first book published by a sociologist and the
Rachel Carson Prize of the
Society for Social Studies of Science. ==References==