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Rabies, immunization against, 21

Racial:

discrimination, 81 ;

purity, 68 , 77 ;

superiority, 77

RAND corporation report, 335

Rapid Treatment Center, 138 -39

Rask, Grethe, 238 n10, 260 -61n130

Reader 's Digest , 129 , 130

Reagan, Ronald (president of the United States), 154 , 307

Reagan administration, 10 , 162 , 203 ;

and AIDS, 305 -6;

and contact with gay groups, 302 -3;

devolution of, 326 ;

and erosion of civil rights and affirmative action, 262 n138;

and health care policy, 304 , 329 ;

and state governments' responsibility for health care, 334

Reaganite volunteerism, 312

Reaganomics, 201

Reallocation of resources, 324 -25

Real Truth About Women and AIDS , The , (Kaplan), 227

Received View on AIDS, 238 n9

Reckord, Milton (major general of the U.S. Army), 113

Recreational drugs, 275

Red Cross, 53

Redfield, R. R., 208 , 209

Red-light district, 74 , 151 -52, 262 n136

Reform, 13 ;

progressive, 23 ;

of state hospitals, 31 n10;

policy guidelines for, 22 -23

Reform, medical, 16 .

See also Sigerist, Henry

Regimen:

concern with, 27 ;

open-air, 75

Regional Medical Program, 322

Reimbursement systems, 24 -25

Reinhard, Ferdinand, 127 -29


359

Reininger, Alon, 173 (fig. 15)

Relativism, cultural, 13

Renal disease, 320

Reporting:

compulsory, 101 ;

errors in, 43

"Repression of sexual promiscuity," 134

Requiem mass, 69

Research. See Laboratory research; names of specific agencies , researchers , and projects

Resectioning rib, 75

Reservoir of AIDS virus, 208 -10, 252 n86

Responsibility:

for costs of health care, 161 ;

of physicians, 86 -94

Restrictive legislation, 305

"Retrovir." See Azidothymidine

Retrovirus, 203

Rickets, 16

Riley, Robert, 134

Risk-groups, 216 , 261 n132.

See also 4-H "risk groups"

Rituals, 84 ;

for lepers, 69 , 70

RNA, 203

Robe, physicians', 89

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 333

Roi Peste , Le (Ensor), 185 (fig. 11)

Rosenau, Milton, 51

Royal Collges of Physicians and Surgeons, 107

Royal Commission on Venereal Diseases, 109

Rumsey, Henry, 104

Rush, Benjamin, 72 -73, 90 -91

Russia, 41

Ryle, John, 113


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