Title Plague doctors : responding to the AIDS epidemic in France and America / Jamie L. Feldman

Published Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 1995

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WATERFT HEALTH	362.1969792 Fel/Pdr		AVAILABLE

Description viii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Contents Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Cultural Constructions - Choosing among Stories -- Ch. 3. Surveying the Contextual Ground -- Ch. 4. The Building Blocks of AIDS -- Ch. 5. The Stories of AIDS - Natural History and Staging -- Ch. 6. Treatment -- Ch. 7. Paradoxes and Patients' Stories -- Ch. 8. AIDS Bodies, AIDS Patients -- Ch. 9. Health Care and Medical Practice -- Ch. 10. Good Science, Bad Science -- Ch. 11. Identity and the AIDS Doctor -- Ch. 12. French and American Differences -- Ch. 13. The Meanings of AIDS - Conclusions Analysis AIDS France United States AIDS France United States Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-264) and index Subject AIDS (Disease) -- France -- Ethnology AIDS (Disease) -- United States -- Ethnology AIDS (Disease) -- France. AIDS (Disease) -- United States. Attitude of health personnel Cross-cultural studies. Epidemiology -- France -- Methodology. Epidemiology -- United States -- Methodology. Medical anthropology. Social medicine. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- ethnology. Attitude of Health Personnel. Cross-Cultural Comparison. Epidemiologic Methods. SUBJECT France. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005602 United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 LC no. 94043601 ISBN 0897893859 (alk. paper)

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