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Labeling, 12 , 13

Labor, 324

Laboratory research, 14 , 20 -21, 29

Ladies National Association, 106

Laird, M.J., 111

Laissez-faire, 103 , 136

Lancet , The , 111 , 112 , 274 , 276

Langone, John, 206 , 217 , 224

La Rouche, Lyndon, 307 , 329

LAV, 285

La Vaccine (Boilly), 180 (fig. 6)

La VACCINE aux prises avec la FACULTÉ , 179 (fig. 5)

Law, 235 n1

Lazzarettos , 37 , 38 , 88

League of Women Voters, 141

"Leap-frog war," 167

Legionnaires' disease, 272 , 326

Leibowitch, Jacques, 200 , 205

Leishman, Katie, 216

Leper, 81 ;

costume, 70

Leprosaria , 68 -69

Leprosy, 6 , 68 -71

Leprosy (Smith), 188 (fig. 14)

Lesbians, 216 ;

with AIDS, 198 ;

discrimination against, 302 ;

and perception of AIDS, 217 ;

and risk, 207 ;

and solidarity with gay men, 258 -59nn120-121

Leviticus, 68

Liberalism, 103

Libertarianism, 102 , 106

Liberties, individual, 98 -99

Lieberson, Jonathan, 205

Life , 155 , 188 (fig. 14)

Life-style, 250 -51n73, 282 , 321 ;

and chronic disease, 290 ;

homosexual, 198 , 200 , 271 ;

hypothesis, 9 , 272 , 274 , 275 -80;

model, 267 , 279 ;

voluntary, 166

Lindgren, Olga, 219 (fig. 5)

Linguistic:

activism, 214 ;

analysis, 8 ;

construction of AIDS, 195 -96;

construction of scientific reality, 242 n20

Local Government Act, 107

Local Government Board, 110

Long-term-care facilities, 335

Lumbar puncture, 50 , 55

Lunacy. See Mental illness

Lunacy Commission, 103 , 104

Lung, collapse, 75

Lust and leprosy, 71