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Society was not prepared in 1981 for the appearance of a new infectious disease, but we have since learned that emerging and re-emerging diseases will continue to challenge humanity. AIDS at 30 is the first history of HIV/AIDS written for a general audience that emphasises the medical response to the epidemic. Award-winning medical historian Victoria A. Harden approaches the AIDS virus from philosophical and intellectual perspectives in the history of medical science, discussing the process of scientific discovery, scientific evidence, and how laboratories found the cause of AIDS and developed therapeutic interventions. Similarly, her book places AIDS as the first infectious disease to be recognised simultaneously worldwide as a single phenomenon. After years of believing that vaccines and antibiotics would keep deadly epidemics away, researchers, doctors, patients, and the public were forced to abandon the arrogant assumption that they had conquered infectious diseases. By presenting an accessible discussion of the history of HIV/AIDS and analysing how aspects of society advanced or hindered the response to the disease, "AIDS at 30" illustrates for both medical professionals and general readers how medicine identifies and evaluates new infectious diseases quickly and what political and cultural factors limit the medical community's response.
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• Introduction: the AIDS Crisis
• The History of HIV/AIDS
• The Origins of HIV/AIDS
• An Epidemic Emerges
• The Shaping of Public Opinion
• Suggested Readings
• The Impact of the Epidemic
• The Situation in the United States
• The Global Crisis
• The Epidemic Takes Its Toll
• Suggested Readings
• HIV/AIDS Within Communities and Populations
• The Teenager
• Women
• Children
• Injecting Drug Users
• The Gay Community
• Commercial Sex Workers
• The Homeless
• Clorrectional Facilities
• Persons with Hemophilia
• Suggested Readings
• AIDS in the Developing World
• The African Pandemic
• The Growing Crisis in Asia
• AIDS in Latin American and the Caribbean
• Suggested Readings
• The Human Side of AIDS
• The Many Faces of AIDS
• Psychosocial Needs of Persons With AIDS
• The Role of Families, Partners and Friends
• The Role of Health Care Providers and Caregivers
• Suggested Readings
• The Politics of AIDS
• Community Responses to the Crisis
• Political Apathy
• Political Activism
• Suggested Readings
• Education and Behavioral Change
• Promoting Awareness and Education
• Producing Behavioral Change
• Suggested Readings: Legal and Ethical Issues
• AIDS, the Workplace, and the Law
• Ethics and AIDS Policy
• Suggested Readings
• The Future of AIDS
• Suggested Readings
• Glossary
• AIDS Resource Directory
• Index.
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AIDS has grown in just tow decades from a rare disease to one that has already killed millions of men, women, and children worldwide. To help high school and college students understnad the history and current status of AIDS as a social, political, psychological, public health, and cultural phenomenon, this documentary history provides 228 short and highly readable selections from primary and secondary sources of information about AIDS and HIV. Its scope covers the entire history of the epidemic from its beginnings to early 1997. The documents, many of which cannot easily be found elsewhere, will help the reader to understand and debate the many perspectives and points of view on this controversial topic. Douglas A. Feldman, one of the country's leading specialists in international and domestic AIDS social research, and Julia Wang Miller, a research consultant, have selected documents and provided explanatory introductions to them to help readers gain a deeper understanding of the sociocultural ramifications of AIDS. Following a narrative historical overview of the AIDS crisis, the work isorganized into nine topical chapters: the history of HIV/AIDS; the impact of the epidemic in the United States and globally; HIV/AIDS within communities and populations; AIDS in the developing world; the human side of AIDS; the politics of AIDS; education and behavioral change; legal and ethical issues; and the future of AIDS. Each chapter contains an introductory narrative overview of the topic, brief explanatory introduction to each document, and list of suggested readings. A glossary of terms and an AIDS resource directory of organizations to contact for further information complete the work. This important documentary history belongs on the shelves of every public school and college and university library.
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• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: AIDS and contemporary history Virginia Berridge
• Part I. The Pre-history of AIDS: 1. AIDS and the regulation of sexuality Jeffrey Weeks
• 2. Public health doctors and AIDS as a public health issue Jane Lewis
• 3. Politics and policy: historical perspectives on screening Bridget Towers
• 4. Testing for a sexually transmissible disease, 1907-1970: the history of the Wassermann reaction Ilana Lowy
• 5. The politics of international co-ordination to combat sexually transmitted diseases, 1900-1980s Paul Weindling
• 6. Hepatitis B as a model (and anti-model) for AIDS William Muraskin
• Part II. AIDS as History: 7. AIDS and British drug policy: continuity or change? Virginia Berridge
• 8. The New York needle trial: the politics of public health in the age of AIDS Warwick Anderson
• 9. Context for a new disease: aspects of biomedical research policy in the United States before AIDS Victoria A. Harden and Dennis Rodrigues
• 10. The NHS responds to HIV/AIDS Ewan Ferlie
• 11. A fall in interest? British AIDS policy, 1986-1990 John Street
• 12. AIDS policies in France Monika Steffen
• Appendix: AIDS: the archive potential Janet Foster
• Index.
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The advent of AIDS has led to a revival of interest in the historical relationship of disease to society. There now exists a new consciousness of AIDS and history, and of AIDS itself as an historic event. This provides the starting-point of this collection of essays. Its twin themes are the 'pre-history' of the impact of AIDS, and its subsequent history. Essays in the section on the 'pre-history' of AIDS analyse the contexts against which AIDS should be measured. The section on AIDS as history presents chapters by historians and policy scientists on such topics as British and US drugs policy, the later years of AIDS policies in the UK and the emergence of AIDS as a political issue in France. A final chapter looks at the archival potential in the AIDS area. As a whole the volume demonstrates the contribution that historians can make in the analysis of near-contemporary events.
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By drawing on the latest discoveries in virology, microbiology, and immunology, Mirko Grmek depicts the AIDS epidemic not as an isolated incident but as part of the long, but far from peaceful, coexistence of humans and viruses.
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• Intentions - Origins - Epidemic in western equatorial Africa - The drive to the east - The conquest of the south - The penetration of the west - Causation: a synthesis - Responses from above - Views from below - NGOs & the evolution of care - Death & the household - The epidemic matures - Containment - Conclusion - Index.
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This history of the African AIDS epidemic is a much-needed, accessibly written historical account of the most serious epidemiological catastrophe of modern times. The African AIDS Epidemic: A History answers President Thabo Mbeki's provocative question as to why Africa has suffered this terrible epidemic. While Mbeki attributed the causes to poverty and exploita-tion, others have looked to distinctive sexual systems practiced in African cultures and communities. John Iliffe stresses historical sequence. He argues that Africa has had the worst epidemic because the disease was established in the general population before anyone knew the disease existed. HIV evolved with extraordinary speed and complexity, and because that evolution took place under the eyes of modern medical research scien-tists, Iliffe has been able to write a history of the virus itself that is probably unique among accounts of human epidemic diseases. In giving the African experience a historical shape, John Iliffe has written one of the most important books of our time. The African experience of AIDS has taught the world much of what it knows about HIV/AIDS, and this fascinating book brings into focus many aspects of the epidemic in the longer context of massive demographic growth, urbanization, and social change in Africa during the latter half of the twentieth century. The African AIDS Epidemic: A History is a brilliant introduction to the many aspects of the epidemic and the distinctive character of the virus.
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This book is aimed initially at students who want to study the history of the Aids epidemic but who currently have no starting point from which to enter the vast and often technical literature. Other readers will also find it a helpful introduction to a subject of immense contemporary importance. This book explains the origins and nature of the virus and the unique epidemic it has caused: the progress of the epidemic across the African continent; the circumstances that have made its impact so severe; the responses of governments, international bodies and NGOs; the moral and political controversies; the effect on households, social systems and economics; the care of the sick and the search for remedies and vaccines; and the impact of antiretroviral treatments. Professor Iliffe has forty years experience of teaching in Africa and Britain. His books on modern African history are renowned. This book uses medical, anthropological and eye-witness sources but assumes no prior knowledge. This is an accessible book on the most terrible catastrophe of modern times.
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This title is aimed initially at those who want to study the history of the Aids epidemic epidemic but who currently have no starting point from which to enter the vast and often technical literature. Other readers will also find it a helpful introduction to a subject of immense contemporary importance. This publication uses medical anthropological and eye-witness sources but assumes no prior knowledge. This is an title on the most terrible catastrophe of modern times.
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Explores the response of governments, medicines and science to the impact of the AIDS epidemic on society. It brings together the views of scientists, policy-makers and historians. The recollections of key figures, such as former US surgeon general, C. Everett, are juxtaposed with historical perspectives on the development of AIDS to provide an overview of the first decade of AIDS in its national and international context. This book should be of interest to medical historians, AIDS researchers, health professionals and scientists, policy-makers and managers in the health industry.
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The AIDS epidemic has posed more urgent historical questions than any other disease of modern times. How have societies responded to epidemics in the past? Why did the disease emerge when and where it did? How has it spread among members of particular groups? And how will the past affect the future - in particular, what does the history of medical science and public health tell us about our ability to control the epidemic and eventually to cure the disease? Historical methods of inquiry change, and people who use these methods often disagree on theory and practice. Indeed, the contributors to this volume hold a variety of opinions on controversial historiographic issues. But they share three important principles: cautious adherence to the 'social constructionist' view of past and present; profound skepticism about historicism's idea of progress; and wariness about 'presentism', the distortion of the past by seeing it only from the point of view of the present. Each of the twelve essays addresses an aspect of the burdens of history during the AIDS epidemic. By 'burdens' is meant the inescapable significance of events in the past for the present. All of these events are related in some way to the current epidemic and can help clarify the complex social and cultural responses to the crisis of AIDS. This collection illuminates present concerns directly and forcefully without sacrificing attention to historical detail and to the differences between past and present situations. It reminds us that many of the issues now being debated - quarantine, exclusion, public needs and private rights - have their parallels in the past. This will be an important book for social historians and general readers as well as for historians of medicine.
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• Emerging in silence
• What Is this new disease?
• Searching for the cause of AIDS
• Clinical research, epidemic of fear, and AIDS in the worldwide blood supply
• AIDS as a cultural phenomenon
• AIDS therapy
• Communicating AIDS
• The global epidemic
• The third decade.

Society was not prepared in 1981 for the appearance of a new infectious disease, but we have since learned that emerging and reemerging diseases will continue to challenge humanity. This work is the first history of HIV/AIDS written for a general audience that emphasizes the medical response to the epidemic. The author, a medical historian approaches the AIDS virus from philosophical and intellectual perspectives in the history of medical science, discussing the process of scientific discovery, scientific evidence, and how laboratories found the cause of AIDS and developed therapeutic interventions. Furthermore, her book places AIDS as the first infectious disease to be recognized simultaneously worldwide as a single phenomenon. After years of believing that vaccines and antibiotics would keep deadly epidemics away, researchers, doctors, patients, and the public were forced to abandon the arrogant assumption that they had conquered infectious diseases. By presenting a discussion of the history of HIV/AIDS and analyzing how aspects of society advanced or hindered the response to the disease, the book illustrates how medicine identifies and evaluates new infectious diseases quickly and what political and cultural factors limit the medical community's response.

This updated and expanded third edition, featuring a new glossary of nearly 500 AIDS-related terms, is intended to provide health-care professionals, public information facilities and librarians with details of more than 900 AIDS-related organizations.
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