AIDS (eBook)

The Making of a Chronic Disease

Elizabeth Fee, Daniel M. Fox (Herausgeber)

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2023
417 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-91244-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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</DIV

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: affected populations • Africa • AIDS • aids litigation project • aids research • Chronic infection • Discrimination • Disease • Drugs • drug testing • epidemiology • ethics • gay community • health policy • historical constructions • history of aids • HIV Infection • human rights commission • human rights issues • Illness • international perspective • intravenous drug users • Japan • Law • legality • New York City • nightly network news • Politics • Public Policy • Transfusion • United Kingdom • United States of America • viral traffic • Virus • women with AIDS
• ISBN-10: 0-520-91244-6 / 0520912446
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-91244-1 / 9780520912441