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"Facing AIDS," 228

Factor VIII, 281

Fain, Nathan, 205

False positive, 305

Falwell, Jerry, 141

Fatal Attraction , 221 , 233 , 262 n138, 266 n158

Fauci, Anthony, 284

FBI. See Federal Bureau of Investigation

Fear:

of AIDS, 154 , 156 ;

of contagion, 68 , 73 ;

of contamination, 29 ;

and control of sexual morality, 140 -42;

of infection, 153 ;

of loss of status, 89 ;

of sex, 151 ;

of venereal disease, 152 .

See also Feared minorities; Phobia

Feared minorities, 78 -82

Federal AIDS Task Force, 308

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 8 , 130 , 133 , 202

Federal government, response to AIDS of, 161 -63

Federal Health Resources and Services Administration, 333

Feldman, Douglas A., 211 , 212

Female:

"circumcision," 211 ;

genital mutilation, 211 ;

"promiscuity," 262 n138;

-to-female transmission of HIV, 258 n119

Feminine personifications, 235 n2

Feminist:

analysis, 233 ;

community, 232

Fettner, Ann Guidici, 206 , 216

Financing health care, 160 -61

Fineberg, Harvey V., 162

Fire-and-brimstone, 307

"Fisting," 295 -96n35

FitzGerald, Frances, 201 -2

Five Points area, 42 , 44 , 45 , 48

Fleck, Ludvik, 203 -4

Flies. See Polio; Stable-fly

Fly-bites. See Polio; Stable-fly

Food, contamination of, 6

Foucault, Michel, 13

4-H "risk groups," 194 , 198 , 206 , 238 n10, 281

Fox, George Henry:

Photographic Illustration of Cutaneous Syphilis , 183 (fig. 9)

France:

cholera in, 41 ;

plague in, 89

Frank, Barney (Congressman), 308

Frank Leslie 's Illustrated Newspaper , 184 (fig. 10)

Frederick Douglass High School, 127

Freedom, individual, 98 -99

Free sterile needles, 164 , 253 n94;

New York City Department of Public Health distribution experiment, 264 n150.

See also Sterile needles for intravenous drug users

Friedan, Betty, 262 n138

Fumigation, 38 , 44 , 50

Functionalism, 18

Fundamentalists, 304 -5, 307


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