Plague-making and the AIDS epidemic : a story of discrimination / Gina M. Bright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bright, Gina M., 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

HIV infections--Europe--Psychological aspects.

HIV infections.

Europe.

Psychological aspects.

HIV infections--United States--Psychological aspects.

United States.

HIV Infections--psychology.

Prejudice.

HIV Infections--history.

Plague--history.

Plague--psychology.

Medical Subjects:

HIV Infections--psychology.

Europe.

United States.

Prejudice.

HIV Infections--history.

Plague--history.

Plague--psychology.

Physical Description:

207 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

Since its appearance in the United States, AIDS has been called a plague. Yet when we view AIDS in the cultural context of other diseases named as plagues throughout history, it appears that many diseases become plagues because they are associated with unaccepted behaviors and marginalized groups. This book explores how the cultural process of making any disease a plague results in discrimination against certain groups, as it has for those with AIDS in the U.S. Gina M. Bright here captures the discrimination produced by plague-making in her analysis and her portraits of the people she has cared for with AIDS over the past quarter-century. Book jacket.

Contents:

Why I wrote this book

What is plague?

Fourteenth-century Europe

Fifteenth- through seventeenth-century Europe

The nineteenth through twentieth centuries

The making of a plague (1981-1986)

Solidifying plague (1987-1989)

Living with plague (1990-1994)

Reflections (1995-2000)

Reticence (2001-2010).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230340718

0230340717

OCLC:

745979563