W
"Wages of sin," 141 .
See also Sin
Wallace, Joyce, 278
Wall Street Journal , 199
War:
on cancer, 320 ;
on polio, 52 ;
sex education during, 136 -38;
and visibility of venereal disease, 123 .
See also Metaphors: military
Wasserman test, 109
Water, contamination of, 6 , 15 ;
as public health issue, 23
Watney, Simon, 213 , 214 , 216 , 217
Waxman, Henry A. (Representative), 308
Wechtlin, Johannes:
Examining a Leper , 177 (fig. 3)
Weekly World News , 218 (fig. 4), 219 (fig. 5), 220
Weeks, Jeffrey, 206
Weiss, Ted (Representative), 308
West Bengal, cholera pandemic in, 41
Western blot technique, 286
White, Ryan, 154 , 210 (fig. 3)
"Why Don't We Stamp Out Syphilis?" (Parran), 129
Williams, Huntington, 130
Winter, Max, 210 (fig. 3)
Wives of AIDS victims, 218 -19 (figs. 4 , 5)
Wockner, Rex, 227
Wofsy, Constance, 215
Wolff, Jeremiah:
Plague Hospital , 175 (fig. 1)
Wolkoff, Claire, 160
Woman in the Body : A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction , The (Martin), 235
Woman-to-woman transmission of HIV, 215 -16
Women:
in the Third World, 207 ;
as victims and transmitters of AIDS, 192 -93
Women and AIDS, 192 -93, 196 -97;
in New York City, 210
Womens' bodies as sources of pathology, 190 -92
Workmen's compensation, 132
World Health Organization (WHO), 193
Wrath of God syndrome (WOGS), 198 .
See also Sin