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Illicit drugs. See Substance abuse; names of specific substances

Illness as Metaphor (Sontag), 168 n1, 242 n20

"Images of Plague," 8

Immigrants:

and cholera 48 ;

and polio, 49 , 52 -53, 57 , 58 , 64 n91;

and yellow fever, 184 (fig. 10).

See also specific nationalities

Immigration, 77 -78, 149 , 306

Immigration Act, 78

Immune system, 28 , 274

Immunity, 48

Immunization, 21

Immunologists, 203 , 248 n49

Immunology, 13 , 28 , 213

Immunosuppression, 272 -74

Immunosuppressive illness, 272

Imperialism:

medical, 104 ;

semantic, 192 , 197 ;

State-medical, 98

Incarceration, 131

Incubation period, 290

Indigent. See Poor

Individual:

liberties, 98 -99;

responsibility, 321 -22

Individualization of public health services, 321 -22

Industrial revolution, 41

Inequities in health care, 256 n108

Infantile paralysis. See Polio

Infection, 29 ;

genitourinary, 211 .

See also HIV

Infectious:

agent, 202 -3;

disease, 172 , 317 -19, 326

Infectious Diseases acts, 108

Infibulation, 211

Influenza, 186 (fig. 12)

"Injection" of virus, 222

Innocent:

agents of disease, 217 ;

"receivers," 209 ;

victims, 252 n89;

of AIDS, 199 , 260 n128;

of syphilis, 155 , 183 (fig. 9).

See also Insontium , venereal

Insane, 102 -3

Insertive-anal sex, 288 .

See also Anal contact; Anal intercourse

Insontium , venereal, 148 , 150 , 155 , 165

Institute of Medicine, 285

Insurance, 24 , 29 , 76 , 82 -83, 318 ;

and access to health care, 327 ;

and chronic illness, 320 ;

commercial, 320 , 322 , 325 , 334 ;

community and "experience" rating, 324 ;

discrimination, 160 ;

individualizing risks, 338 ;

linked to employment, 338 ;

private, 334 ;

and syphilis, 132 ;

and testing, 160 -61

Intemperance, 46 , 62 n39, 74 .

See also Alcohol; Drunkenness

International trade, 87 -88

Internment, 8

Intern 's Tale , The (Douglas), 190 -92, 233

Interventionist:

medicine, 24 ;

social agenda, 22 -23

Intimacy, 173 -74

Intragovernmental Task Force on AIDS Health Care Delivery, 335

Intravenous drug use, 9 , 209 , 252 n87.

See also Intravenous drug users; Substance abuse; names of specific substances

Intravenous drug users, 160 -61, 204 , 207 ;

and activism, 264 n150;

and AIDS, 192 , 198 ;

children of, 9 ;

female, 209 ;

heterosexual, 279 ;

moth-

Intravenous drug users (continued )

ers, 9 ;

partners of, 9 .

See also Intravenous drug use; Substance abuse; names of specific substances

"Invidious transmission," 211

Invisibility:

of women, 194 -95;

of risk groups, 261 n132

Involuntary:

isolation, 82 -83;

treatment laws, 76

Irish, 41 -42, 46 .

See also Cholera; Immigrants

Isolation, 6 ;

of drug users, 80 -81;

in hospitals, 108 ;

of physicians, 89 ;

of plague victims, 88 ;

and polio, 55 ;

for tuberculosis, 75

Italians:

and polio, 49 , 52 , 58 , 64 n91;

and yellow fever, 184 (fig. 10).

See also Polio; Yellow fever

Itzel, Joseph, 133 -34