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AIDS in the mind of America / Dennis Altman.
LIBRA RC607.A26 A37 1986
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Altman, Dennis, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--United States.
- AIDS (Disease).
- AIDS (Disease)--United States--Public opinion.
- Public opinion--United States.
- Public opinion.
- AIDS (Disease)--Public opinion.
- AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 228 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Anchor books ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Books, 1987, ©1986.
- Summary:
- Examines the political aspects of the AIDS epidemic, discusses press coverage of the disease, and analyzes public hysteria concerning AIDS and its victims.
- Contents:
- Living through an epidemic
- A very political epidemic
- The conceptualization of AIDS
- Fear and stigma
- The gay community's response
- Politics and money
- Contagious desire : sex and disease
- A very American epidemic?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-216) and index.
- Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press/Doubleday.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.
- ISBN:
- 0385195249
- 9780385195249
- OCLC:
- 15324982
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