Persisting Pandemics

Syphilis, AIDS, and COVID

Powel H. Kazanjian (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

276 Seiten

2024
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-3067-7 (ISBN)

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Persisting Pandemics explores the history of syphilis and AIDS to provide insights into the limits of biomedicine and our experience with epidemics today. Novel therapies developed for syphilis and AIDS became renowned in the medical field and the broader public sphere as exemplars of biomedical innovations. Public health campaigns based on these spectacular biomedical advances, however, have repeatedly fallen short of their goals to eliminate syphilis and AIDS in the population. The diseases epitomize the power of innovative biomedical therapies for the individual while unveiling limitations of scientific medicine in the domain of public health. The need for a public health approach to address mistrust in science, government indifference, and racial inequalities is relevant for strategies to eliminate COVID-19 today. Persisting Pandemics argues that campaigns to eliminate these diseases have not succeeded because they have not adequately addressed how diseases like AIDS, syphilis, and COVID spread unevenly in populations according to race, ethnicity, and geographic location. Despite the expectation of public health officials that medical advances would render epidemics obsolete, new diseases continue to emerge and spread regardless of efforts to eliminate them. Medical doctor and historian Powel H. Kazanjian concludes that narratives of syphilis, AIDS and COVID, unlike smallpox, do not contain a discrete ending—at least not within the timelines specified by their elimination campaigns. Instead they will be a continued part of our existence.

POWEL H. KAZANJIAN, MD, PhD is a professor and chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, at the University of Michigan Medical Center and a professor in the Department of History at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Syphilis: Vanguard of Scientific Medicine
Chapter 2: AIDS: Potential of Biomedicine
Chapter 3: Fate of Elimination Campaigns
Chapter 4: Legacies of Mistrust: Syphilis and AIDS
Chapter 5: COVID: Familiar Patterns Emerge
Chapter 6: Vulnerable Environments: Historic Roots
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.11.2024
Reihe/Serie	Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Zusatzinfo	7 color and 11 B-W images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	367 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-9788-3067-X / 197883067X
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-3067-7 / 9781978830677
Zustand	Neuware