Description |
ix, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
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 -- 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 |
Analysis |
Man AIDS Social aspects |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
Notes |
A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program |
Subject |
AIDS (Disease) -- History.
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AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects.
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Medicine -- History -- Research -- Methodology.
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Author |
Fee, Elizabeth.
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Fox, Daniel M.
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LC no. |
88020937 |
ISBN |
0520063953 (alk. paper) |
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0520063961 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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