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"Wages of sin," 141 .

See also Sin

Wallace, Joyce, 278

Wall Street Journal , 199

War:

on cancer, 320 ;

on polio, 52 ;

sex education during, 136 -38;

and visibility of venereal disease, 123 .

See also Metaphors: military

Wasserman test, 109

Water, contamination of, 6 , 15 ;

as public health issue, 23

Watney, Simon, 213 , 214 , 216 , 217

Waxman, Henry A. (Representative), 308

Wechtlin, Johannes:

Examining a Leper , 177 (fig. 3)

Weekly World News , 218 (fig. 4), 219 (fig. 5), 220

Weeks, Jeffrey, 206

Weiss, Ted (Representative), 308

West Bengal, cholera pandemic in, 41

Western blot technique, 286

White, Ryan, 154 , 210 (fig. 3)

"Why Don't We Stamp Out Syphilis?" (Parran), 129

Williams, Huntington, 130

Winter, Max, 210 (fig. 3)

Wives of AIDS victims, 218 -19 (figs. 4 , 5)

Wockner, Rex, 227

Wofsy, Constance, 215

Wolff, Jeremiah:

Plague Hospital , 175 (fig. 1)

Wolkoff, Claire, 160

Woman in the Body : A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction , The (Martin), 235

Woman-to-woman transmission of HIV, 215 -16

Women:

in the Third World, 207 ;

as victims and transmitters of AIDS, 192 -93

Women and AIDS, 192 -93, 196 -97;

African, 192 -93, 212 ;

in New York City, 210

Womens' bodies as sources of pathology, 190 -92

Workmen's compensation, 132

World Health Organization (WHO), 193

Wrath of God syndrome (WOGS), 198 .

See also Sin