N
Narcotic Addict Rehabilitation Act, 79
National Academy of Sciences, 285
National Advisory Committee on AIDS (NACAIDS), 303
National Anti-Contagious Diseases acts, 106
National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools, 127
National Cancer Institute (NCI), 202 , 284
National Center for Health Services Research and Technology Assessment, 336
National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse, 80 -81
National Consciousness of AIDS, 196
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, 330
National French League Against Venereal Disease, 187 (fig. 13)
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), 305
National Geographic , 202 -3
National health insurance, 325
National Health Service, 98
National Hemophilia Foundation, 237 n6
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 284
National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), 279 -80
National Institute of Medicine, 193
National Institutes of Health, 28 , 161 , 275 , 322 , 329 -30
National Office of Social Hygiene, 187 (fig. 13)
National Organization for Women, 141
National Tuberculosis Association, 75 , 330
National Vigilance Movement, 106
"Natural" receptacle, 201 , 247 n39.
See also "Approved receptacle"
Needles, free sterile. See Sterile needles for intravenous drug users
Negro Health Week, 127 , 128
Nelson, Nels, 134 , 135 , 136
Némésis médicale illustrée , recueil de satires (Fabre, after Daumier), 181 (fig. 7)
Neoarsphenamine, 126
Neonatal intensive care, 25
New Deal, 326
New England Journal of Medicine , 274 , 283
Newsweek , 208 (fig. 2), 210 (fig. 3), 212 , 217 , 227
New Woman , 216 , 222 , 227
New York Blood Center, 287
New York City:
cholera pandemic in, 41 -48;
and polio, 48 -53, 55
New York City Board of Health, 74
New York City Department of Public Health free needle distribution experiment, 264 n150
New York City Health Department:
and tuberculosis, 75 ;
and polio, 55
New York City's Gay Men's Health Crisis, 224 , 302
New York City's Special Medical Council, 73
New York Equitable Insurance Company, 45
New York Evening Post , 74
New York Health Department, 49 -53
New York Medical Society, 91
New York State Health Department, 332 -33
New York Times , 156 , 211 , 227 , 329
New York Times / CBS poll, 153
New York Times Magazine , 194 -95, 227
New York University Medical Center, 276
Nichols, Eve K., 214
Nitrite:
inhalant, 273 , 288 ;
and CMV, 295 -96
Nixon administration, 320
Nobel laureate, 148 .
See also Ehrlich, Paul
Nonvenereal syphilis, 123
Norwegian rat, 35
Notification laws, 113
Notification of Disease acts, 100 , 108 , 109
Novey, Alexander, 136
Nuisance Removal acts, 100
Nutrition, 292 .
See also Regimen