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Patient zero and the making of the AIDS epidemic / Richard A. McKay.
LIBRA RA643.86.N7 M46 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKay, Richard Andrew, 1978- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dugas, Gaé́tan, 1952-1984.
- Dugas, Gaé́tan.
- AIDS (Disease)--North America--History.
- AIDS (Disease).
- Epidemics--North America.
- Epidemics.
- AIDS (Disease)--North America--Historiography.
- AIDS (Disease)--Patients.
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--history.
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--epidemiology.
- Historiography.
- History.
- North America.
- Medical Subjects:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--history.
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--epidemiology.
- North America.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 432 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
- Contents:
- Introduction: "he is still out there"
- What came before zero?
- The cluster study
- "Humanizing this disease"
- Giving a face to the epidemic
- Ghosts and blood
- Locating Gaétan Dugas's views
- Epilogue: zero hour-making histories of the North American AIDS epidemic.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226063812
- 022606381X
- 9780226063959
- 022606395X
- OCLC:
- 975912366
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