P

Paleo, Lyn, 207 , 233

Pally, Marcia, 216

Panem, Sandra, 199

Pankhurst, Christabel, 106

Paris:

clinical school in, 19 ;

International AIDS Conference in, 217

Parran, Thomas, 129 , 130 -31

Pasteur Institut, 202 , 284

Paternalism, 100 -103, 107

Patient with AIDS (Reininger), 189 (fig. 15)

"Patient Zero," 217 , 260 n130

Patton, Cindy, 216

Pavia, 89

PCP, 197 -98, 270 , 271 , 272 -73, 276

Pellagra, 15 , 16

Penicillin, 8 , 138 -39;

therapy, 141 ;

and Tuskegee syphilis experiment, 143 n15

Pentamidine, 272 -73

Perinatal AIDS, 258 n115, 260 n128

Personal behavior. See Life-style

Personal-support networks, 339

Pesthouses, 37 -38

Pets, in artistic representations of AIDS patients, 250 n65

Philadelphia:

yellow fever, 72

Philip V (king of France), 70

Phobia:

about contamination, 216 ;

erotophobia, 216 ;

homophobia, 298 n70

Photojournalism, 227 , 228 ;

conventions of, 173 ;

Eugene W. Smith, 188

Physicians:

oversupply of, 324

Pigtown, 52 , 53

Pitch, 44

Plague, 34 -40, 88 -89;

doctors and, 95 n9, 96 n18;

images of, 8 ;

international trade and, 87 -88;

Jews and, 58 n13;

in London, 36 ;

in Naples, 35 -36;

in North Africa, Spain, and France, 35 ;

and physicians' behavior, 86 -87;

in Rome, 34 -37.

See also Black Death

Plague Hospital (Wolff), 175 (fig. 1)

Plain Words About Venereal Disease (Parran), 129

Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), 197 -98, 270 , 271 , 272 -73, 276

Podhoretz, Norman, 155 -56

Poe, Edgar Allan:

"King Pest," 185 (fig. 11)

Poles, 52

Police Department of Baltimore, 134 -35

Policy-making and AIDS organization, 312

Polio (poliomyelitis), 5 , 6 , 48 -56, 64 n85;

and New York Health Department, 49 -53

Political Justice (Godwin), 99

Politics:

of diagnosis, 13 ;

of health, 98 ;

of physicians' responsibility, 86 -94

Polity. See Health polity

Polk, B. Frank, 289

Pollution, environmental, 322

Poor:

and cholera, 45 -46, 48 ;

evacuation of, 45 ;

and plague, 36 ;

and polio, 52 , 58 ;

responsibility for treating, 92 ;

as scapegoats, 40 ;

and syphilis, 125 -26

Poovey, Maru, 200 , 205

Poppers (amyl nitrite), 200

Pornography, 201 ;

"safer sex" instruction as, 246 n36

"Portals," 214 ;

postrelativism, 14

Potter's Field, 45

Poverty:

and sickness, 22 -23.

See also Poor

Power:

balance of, between preventive and curative medicine, 114 ;

knowledge and, 12 -13;

of the medical profession, 13 ;

and medico-scientific knowledge, 97 ;

of the state versus the individual, 98 -99

Predictors of AIDS, 288 -89

Predisposition:

to AIDS, 28 ;

to disease, 19

Preferred Provider organizations, 331

Pregnancy and suppression of immunity, 258 nn116 and 117

Prejudices, 157 ;

and polio, 57

Premarital:

continence, 151 ;

testing, 109 , 158 , 159 ;

screening, 151

Premenstrual tension, 235 n1

Prenatal screening, 151

Prepaid group practices, 325

Presentism, 3 -4

Prestige, physicians', 320

Prevention:

of AIDS, 264 n151;

methods, 296 n35;

of polio, 65 n106;

of tuberculosis, 75

Primary prevention, 290 -92, 302 -303, 305

Prisons, screening programs of, 158

Progressive:

era, 128 -152;

reform, 23

Promiscuity:

of homosexuals, 278 ;

and "life-style" model, 277 ;

metaphorical, 237 n8;

moral dimension of, 278 ;

use of term in scientific journals, 9 ;

and venereal disease, 112 , 122 , 278

Prophylactic:

kits, 123 , 136 ;

measures, 127 ;

treatment of gonorrheal blindness, 148

Prophylactics, 110 , 113 , 136 .

See also Condoms

Prophylaxis, 137

Prostitutes. See Prostitution

Prostitution, 7 , 100 , 106 -7, 208 (fig. 2);

and Baltimore police, 134 ;

and cholera, 46 ;

and class, 200 ;

contaminated prostitutes, 207 ;

and disease discourse, 251 n79;

as federal offense, 133 ;

as free-market activity, 105 ;

in Germany, 208 -9;

incarceration of prostitutes, 131 ;

prostitutes as immigrants, 149 -50;

prostitutes as intravenous drug users, 209 , 215 ;

law enforcement against, 8 ;

as metaphor, 262 n136;

in Nairobi, 228 , 252 nn86 and 87 ;

organizations, 216 ;

and plague, 37 ;

quarantined prostitutes, 152 ;

and "safer sex," 228 ;

prostitutes as sources of infection, 9 , 151 ;

prostitutes as sources of information regarding sexual practices, 260 n124;

stigmatization of prostitutes, 110 ;

types of, 135 ;

and venereal disease, 109 , 123

Protozoan-produced condition, 270

Psychiatry, 23 -24, 31 n17

"Psychic contagion," 81

Psychodynamic models, 31 n17

Psychoses, biological basis of, 13

Public health:

agencies, 321 ;

AIDS as an issue of, 33 ;

and expansion of medical responsibility, 22 -23;

education, 7 , 127 , 291 ;

measures as punishment, 38 ;

nurses and polio, 52 -53;

and plague, 37 ;

and polio, 52 -53, 55 ;

policies, 163 -64;

services, 322 ;

and tuberculosis, 76 .

See also names of specific agencies and services

Public Health Act of 1848, 100

Public Health Service, 8 , 125 , 129 ;

and blood screening, 282 ;

and conceptualization of AIDS, 280

Punishment, 125 ;

AIDS as, 28 , 244 n28;

cholera as, 47 ;

leprosy as, 69 ;

public health measures as, 165

Purgatory, 69

"Purged" buildings, 38

Putrefaction, 72