AIDS : the making of a chronic disease /

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992.
Description:	1 online resource (vi, 430 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	AIDS (Disease) -- History. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- epidemiology. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- history. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- legislation & jurisprudence Ethics, Medical. Health Policy. AIDS (Disease) History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11100438

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:	Fee, Elizabeth. Fox, Daniel M.
ISBN:	9780520912441 0520912446 0585041202 9780585041209 9780520075696 0520075692 9780520077782 0520077784 0520075692 0520077784
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	"When AIDS was first recognized in 1981, most experts believed that it was a plague, a virulent unexpected disease. They thought AIDS, as a plague, would resemble the great epidemics of the past: it would be devastating but would soon subside, perhaps never to return. By the middle 1980s, however, it became increasingly clear that AIDS was a chronic infection, not a classic plague. In this follow-up to AIDS: The Burdens of History, editors Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox present essays that describe how AIDS has come to be regarded as a chronic disease. Representing diverse fields and professions, the twenty-three contributors to this work use historical methods to analyze politics and public policy, human rights issues, and the changing populations with HIV infection. They examine the federal government's testing of drugs for cancer and HIV, and show how the policy makers' choice of a specific historical model (chronic disease versus plague) affected their decisions. A powerful photo essay reveals the strengths of women from various backgrounds and lifestyles who are coping with HIV. A sensitive account of the complex relationships of the gay community to AIDS is included. Finally, several contributors provide a sampling of international perspectives on the impact of AIDS in other nations."--Publisher's description
Other form:	Print version: AIDS. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992 0520075692

Table of Contents:

AIDS and beyond : defining the rules for viral traffic / Stephen S. Morse
Causes, cases, and cohorts : the role of epidemiology in the historical construction of AIDS / Gerald M. Oppenheimer
The mass-mediated epidemic : the politics of AIDS on the nightly network news / Timothy E. Cook, David C. Colby
The politics of HIV infection : 1989-1990 as years of change / Daniel M. Fox
The AIDS litigation project : a national review of court and human rights commission decisions on discrimination / Larry Gostin
The history of transfusion AIDS : practice and policy alternatives / Harvey M. Sapolsky, Stephen L. Boswell
Scientific rigor and medical realities : placebo trials in cancer and AIDS research / David J. Rothman, Harold Edgar
Entering the second decade : the politics of prevention, the politics of neglect / Ronald Bayer.
Until that last breath : women with AIDS / Ann Meredith
Riding the tiger : AIDS and the gay community / Robert A. Padgug, Gerald M. Oppenheimer
The first city : HIV among intravenous drug users in New York City / Don C. Des Jarlais, Samuel R. Friedman, Jo L. Sotheran
AIDS policies in the United Kingdom : a preliminary analysis / Virginia Berridge, Philip Strong
Foreign blood and domestic politics : the issue of AIDS in Japan / James W. Dearing
Medical research on AIDS in Africa : a historical perspective / Randall M. Packard, Paul Epstein
AIDS and HIV infection in the Third World : a first world chronicle / Paula A. Treichler.

AIDS : the making of a chronic disease /

Similar Items