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Record Nr.

UNINA9910496147803321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, [1988]

ISBN

0-585-04119-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 362 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

362.1/9697/92009

Soggetti

AIDS (Disease) - History

AIDS (Disease) - Social aspects

Medicine - History - Research - Methodology

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - history

Communicable Diseases

Public Health

Health & Biological Sciences

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : AIDS, public policy, and historical inquiry / Elizabeth Fee and Danial M. Fox -- Disease and social order in America : perceptions and expectations / Chalres E. Rosenberg -- Epidemics and history : ecological perspectives and social responses / Guenter B. Risse -- Quaratine 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.