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MacDonald, 204

McKeldin, Theodore (Mayor), 138

McKeown, Thomas, 292

McKinlay, John and Sonia, 292

"Magic bullet," 162 , 167 , 220

"Malign neglect," 311 -12

Manchee, Dorothy, 112

Mandatory:

reporting, 75 ;

screening, 158 , 160 ;

testing, 215 , 266 n157

Marijuana, 83 , 273

Martin, Emily, 220 , 235 n2

Marx, Jean L., 204 , 215

Maryland Medical Association, 135

Maryland State Department of Health, 135 , 139 -40

Masturbation, 137

Maternal immunity to polio, 48

May Act, 133

Meacher, Michael, 115

Meaning of disease, 12 , 26 -27

Mechanistic reductionism, 20

Medicaid, 323 , 331 , 335

Medical:

authority, 23 ;

imperialism, 104 ;

knowledge and social intervention, 15 ;

police, 117 n8;

security, 153 .

See also Authority

Medical Act of 1848, 100

Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, 135

Medical Council of New York, 45

"Medical counsel," 91

"Medical homophobia," 201

Medical officer of health (MOH), 108

"Medical secret," 251 n78

Medical Society of New York, 42

Medicare, 320 , 323 , 334 -35

Meeks, Ken, 173 (fig. 15)

Meese Commission for the Study of Pornography, 201

Memento mori , 178 (fig. 4), 187 (fig. 13)

Mencken, H. L., 127 , 128

Mendelian genetics, 77

Menstruation, 190 -92, 236 n2, 261 -62n134

Mental health community and neighborhood centers, 324

Mental illness, 7 , 102 -3;

classification, 13 ;

as consequence of habits, 27 ;

and deviance, 23 ;

somaticism, 13

Mentor contraceptives, 222

Merchants, 87 -88, 90

Metaphors:

in AIDS discourse, 204 ;

body as, 236 n2;

and females, 208 , 237 n8;

illness as, 168 n1, 242 n20;

military, 137 , 249 n55;

leprosy as, 70 ;

liquid, 262 n136;

regarding prostitutes, 262 n136;

sexuality, 235 n1;

venereal disease as, 151 ;

water, 220

Metropolitan Asylum Board, 108

Mexicans, as drug "abusers," 81

Miasmas, 89 .

See also Environmental; Vapors

Middlesex Hospital, 115

Milbank Quarterly , The , 317

Military metaphors. See Metaphors: military

Military screening program, 158 .

See also Blood: tests; HIV: screening

Mill, John Stuart, 99 -104, 118 n40

Ministry for Information, 112

"Miracle":

cures, 138 ;

drugs, 140

Misogyny, 106

Mitchell, John P. (Mayor), 49 , 52

MMWR . See Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Mobilizing Against AIDS : The Unfinished Story of a Virus (Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences), 285

Model of Disease, in the nineteenth century, 19 -20

Montagnier, Luc, 284 -85.

See also HTLV / LAV; Pasteur Institut

Moral:

absolutism, 136 ;

code, disease and violation of, 167 ;

crusade, 141 ;

dimensions of promiscuity, 278 ;

failings as cause of cholera, 48 ;

judgment and "life-style" model, 277 ;

obligation to treat plague victims, 89 ;

order, violators of, 155 ;

paternalism, 101 ;

puritanism, 166 ;

training, 140 ;

turpitude, 70

See also Sin

Moralism, 304

Morality:

and disease causation, 18 ;

in health care policy, 16 ;

as medical issue, 22

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR ), 197 , 198 , 270 , 271 , 275 , 281 -82

Mortality rates:

for infectious diseases, 292 ;

for tuberculosis, 76

Moses, 68

Mosquitoes, 6 , 71 -73.

See also Yellow fever

Ms ., 226 (fig. 7), 216 , 225 , 228 , 230 (fig. 8)

Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study 299 n95

Multifactorial:

conception of AIDS, 202 , 287 ;

model of disease, 269 , 275 , 291 -92

Murray, Marea, 216 -17

Mutations, 56