Daniel M. Fox & Elizabeth Fee 
AIDS [EPUB ebook] 
The Making of a Chronic Disease

When AIDS was first recognized in 1981, most experts believed that it was a plague, a virulent unexpected disease. They thought AIDS, as a plague, would resemble the great epidemics of the past: it would be devastating but would soon subside, perhaps never to return. By the middle 1980s, however, it became increasingly clear that AIDS was a chronic infection, not a classic plague.


In this follow-up to
AIDS: The Burdens of History, editors Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox present essays that describe how AIDS has come to be regarded as a chronic disease. Representing diverse fields and professions, the twenty-three contributors to this work use historical methods to analyze politics and public policy, human rights issues, and the changing populations with HIV infection. They examine the federal government’s testing of drugs for cancer and HIV, and show how the policy makers’ choice of a specific historical model (chronic disease versus plague) affected their decisions. A powerful photo essay reveals the strengths of women from various backgrounds and lifestyles who are coping with HIV. A sensitive account of the complex relationships of the gay community to AIDS is included. Finally, several contributors provide a sampling of international perspectives on the impact of AIDS in other nations.



When AIDS was first recognized in 1981, most experts believed that it was a plague, a virulent unexpected disease. They thought AIDS, as a plague, would resemble the great epidemics of the past: it would be devastating but would soon subside, perhaps neve

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Introduction: The Contemporary Historiography of AIDS

Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox


PART I. THE VIRUS AND ITS PUBLICS


AIDS and Beyond: Defining the Rules for Viral Traffic

Stephen S. Morse

Causes, Cases, and Cohorts: The Role of Epidemiology

in the Historical Construction of AIDS

Gerald M. Oppenheimer

The Mass-Mediated Epidemic: The Politics of AIDS on

the Nightly Network News

Timothy E. Cook and David C. Colby


PART II. LAW, ETHICS, AND PUBLIC POLICY


The Politics of HIV Infection: 1989-1990 as Years of

Change

Daniel M. Fox

The AIDS Litigation Project: A National Review of Court

and Human Rights Commission Decisions on Discrimination

Larry Costin

The History of Transfusion AIDS: Practice and Policy

Alternatives

Harvey M. Sapo/sky and Stephen L. Boswell

Scientific Rigor and Medical Realities: Placebo Trials in

Cancer and AIDS Research

David]. Rothman and Harold Edgar

Entering the Second Decade: The Politics of Prevention,

the Politics of Neglect

Ronald Bayer


PART III. AFFECTED POPULATIONS


Until That Last Breath: Women with AIDS

Ann Meredith

Riding the Tiger: AIDS and the Gay Community

Robert A. Padgug and Gerald M. Oppenheimer

The First City: HIV among Intravenous Drug Users in

New York City

Don C. Des ]arlais, Samuel R. Friedman, and ]o L.

Sotheran


PART IV. INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES


AIDS Policies in the United Kingdom: A Preliminary

Analysis

Virginia Berridge and Philip Strong

Foreign Blood and Domestic Politics: The Issue of AIDS

in Japan

James W. Dearing

Medical Research on AIDS in Africa: A Historical

Perspective

Randall M. Packard and Paul Epstein

AIDS and HIV Infection in the Third World: A First

World Chronicle

Paula A. Treichler


Notes on Contributors

Index

Contents

关于作者

Elizabeth Fee is Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at the School of Public Health at The Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. Daniel M. Fox is President of the Milbank Memorial Fund and Professor of Social Sciences in Medicine at the State University of New York, Stonybrook.