ABSTRACT
HIV/AIDS activists, both in the United States and internationally, have charged that existing norms of research are unresponsive to the challenges of the global HIV/AIDS crisis. 1 Activists contend that HIV/AIDS requires a response significantly different from normal medical science and that HIV/AIDS research should be considered a crisis discipline. To explore how social phenomena shape the role of values in science, I focus on a recent controversy concerning international research about HIV/AIDS in developing countries.
