AIDS : the burdens of history / edited by Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fee, Elizabeth.

Fox, Daniel M.

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--History.

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects.

Medicine--History--Research--Methodology.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--history.

AIDS.

AIDS (Disease).

Medicine--Research--Methodology.

AIDS (Disease)--Government policy--United States.

AIDS (Disease)--Moral and ethical aspects--United States--Prevention.

AIDS (Disease)--Patients--United States--Social conditions.

Homosexuality--Law and legislation--United States.

Medical Subjects:

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--history.

Local Subjects:

AIDS.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung

Student Collection

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1988.

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1988]

Summary:

Chronicles the responses of societies in times past to deadly diseases and illnesses, exploring the relevance of, and the lessons to be learned from, these events in terms of the current AIDS crisis.

Contents:

Introduction : AIDS, public policy, and historical inquiry / Elizabeth Fee and Danial M. Fox

Disease and social order in America : perceptions and expectations / Charles E. Rosenberg

Epidemics and history : ecological perspectives and social responses / Guenter B. Risse

Quarantine and the problem of AIDS / David F. Musto

The politics of physicians' responsibility in epidemics : a note on history / Daniel M. Fox

The enforcement of health : the British debate / Dorothy Porter and Roy Porter

Sin versus science : venereal disease in twentieth-century Baltimore / Elizabeth Fee

AIDS : from social history to social policy / Allan M. Brandt

Images of plague : infectious disease in the visual arts / Daniel M. Fox and Diane R. Karp

AIDS, gender, and biomedical discourse : current contests for meaning / Paula A. Treichler

In the eye of the storm : the epidemiological construction of AIDS / Gerald M. Oppenheimer

Legitimation through disaster : AIDS and the gay movement / Dennis Altman

AIDS and the American health polity : the history and prospects of a crisis of authority / Daniel M. Fox.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: AIDS.

ISBN:

0520063953

9780520063952

0520063961

9780520063969

OCLC:

18190914

Publisher Number:

BIST795555

ZBWT00215112

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