Why I wrote this book -- What is plague? -- Fourteenth-century Europe -- Fifteenth- through seventeenth-century Europe -- The nineteenth through twentieth centuries -- The making of a plague (1981-1986) -- Solidifying plague (1987-1989) -- Living with plague (1990-1994) -- Reflections (1995-2000) -- Reticence (2001-2010)
Summary
This book explores how the cultural process of making any disease a "plague" results in discrimination against certain groups, as it has for those with AIDS in America. Gina M. Bright here captures the discrimination produced by plague-making in her analysis and her portraits of the people she has cared for with AIDS over the past quarter-century.<br/>