B

Babies, 198 , 248 n47

"Back-door homophobia," 227

"Bad blood," 143 n15, 237 n6

Baltimore City Hospitals, 138

Baltimore Criminal Justice Commission, 135

Baltimore Gay Alliance, 141

Baltimore Health News , 130

Baltimore Police Department, 134 -35

Baltimore Retail Druggists Association, 135

Baltimore Sun , 130 , 139

Baltimore Venereal Disease Council, 135

Barbarini, Francesco, 37

Barrett, Wayne, 216

Bathhouses, 247 n45, 273 , 277 , 306

Behavior, 165 -67, 287 , 291 .

See also Life-style

Bejerot, Nils, 81

Bell, Steve, 201

Bellevue almhouse, 42

Benevolent Order of Elks, the, 141

Bentham, Jeremy, 101

Bevan, Aneurin, 98

Beveridge, William, 98

Bills of Mortality, 178 (fig. 4)

"Binary division," 234

"Bioethics movement," 323

Biological experimentation, 202

Biomedical:

approach, 130 -31, 139 ;

discourse, 238 n9;

research, 8 , 203 ;

understanding of AIDS, 196

Birds , The (Hitchcock), 221

Bisexuality, 250 n73

Black:

community, 212 ;

disease (syphilis), 125 ;

patients, 132 ;

population, 125 ;

women, 214 , 261 n132.

See also Blacks

Black Death, 5 , 6 , 58 n3, 71 , 87 -88.

See also Plague

"Black hand" letter, 53

Blacks, 79 , 81 ;

Tuskegee syphilis experiment, 143 n15

"Blaming the victim," 321

Bleeding as therapy, 90

Bleier, Ruth, 204

Blewett, Neal (Labor Health Minister), 312

Blindness, 148 .

See also Gonorrhea

Blood:

donation, 158 ;

screening, 282 , 291 ;

supply, 157 , 283 , 297 n70;

tests, 286 ;

tests for antibodies for HIV, 158 -61, 280 ;

tests for syphilis, 109 , 132 -33;

transfusions, 198 , 281 , 283 ;

vector for AIDS, 281 .

See also Screening

Blood Sister Project of San Diego, 258 -59n120

"Bloody Maggie," 190 -92, 207

Blue Cross, 318 , 320 , 323 , 325 , 334

Blue Cross / Blue Shield, 323

BMA. See British Medical Association

Board of Health, New York, 41 -43, 47 , 56

Board of Liquor License Commissioners, 135

Boccaccio, 91

Boilly, Louis Leopold:

La Vaccine , 180 (fig. 6)

"Border case," 200 , 205 , 245 n33, 250 n73

Boycott of school districts, 154

Boy Scouts, 141

Brandt, Allan M., 220 , 313

Brandt, Edward, 161

Brieux, Eugene:

Damaged Goods , 149

Brigham, Amariah, 74

Brill, Henry, 80 -81

Britain, cholera pandemic in, 41

British Hygiene Council, 112

British Journal of Venereal Diseases , 278

British Medical Association (BMA), 115

British Medical Journal , 116

British Social Hygiene Council, 110

Britt, Harry (San Francisco City Council member), 308

Brown, Lucius P., 80

Browne, Walter (Mayor of New York), 41

Bubonic plague. See Black Death; Plague

Buchanan, Patrick, 155

Buckley, William F., 328 -29

Burke, Edmund, 99

Business leaders as authority in health policy, 324 -25

Butler, Josephine, 106

Butler, Samuel, 97

Butyl nitrite, 273 .

See also Amyl nitrite

Byron, Peg, 216