R
Rabies, immunization against, 21
Racial:
discrimination, 81 ;
superiority, 77
RAND corporation report, 335
Rapid Treatment Center, 138 -39
Rask, Grethe, 238 n10, 260 -61n130
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
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
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
See also 4-H "risk groups"
Rituals, 84 ;
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