AIDS

  Acknowledgments

  Introduction: AIDS, Public Policy, and Historical Inquiry
 collapse sectionDisease and Social Order in America: Perceptions and Expectations
 Men of Goodwill
 Evolving Conceptions of Disease
 Disease as Behavioral Sanction
 Contradictions and Crisis
 Conclusion: The Social Construction of AIDS
 Notes
 collapse sectionEpidemics and History: Ecological Perspectives and Social Responses
 Plague
 Cholera
 Polio
 Conclusion
 Notes
 collapse sectionQuarantine and the Problem of AIDS
 Leprosy
 Yellow Fever
 Cholera
 Tuberculosis
 Quarantine and the "Disease" of Immigration
 Drugs and Feared Minorities
 Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
 Notes
 collapse sectionThe Politics of Physicians' Responsibility in Epidemics: A Note on History
 Negotiation and Opportunity
 Epidemics in the United States
 Institutionalizing Plague Doctors
 Physicians' Contemporary Obligations
 Notes
 collapse sectionThe Enforcement of Health: The British Debate
 The Individual and the State
 State Intervention, Paternalism, and Resistance
 Medical Power, Privacy, and AIDS
 Notes
 collapse sectionSin versus Science: Venereal Disease in Twentieth-Century Baltimore
 Treatment for Venereal Disease: The Public Health Clinics
 Venereal Disease and Racism
 Syphilis Becomes Everyone's Disease: The National Campaign
 Medical Treatment or Crusade against Vice?
 The Impact of War
 Sex Education During the War
 After the War: The New Penicillin Therapy
 Conclusion: The End of the Struggle?
 Notes
 collapse sectionAIDS: From Social History to Social Policy
 Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Historical Context
 The AIDS Epidemic
 Social Attitudes and Stigma
 Screening for HIV
 AIDS and Public Health
 AIDS in a Cultural Context
 Notes
 collapse sectionImages of Plague: Infectious Disease in the Visual Arts
 Plates
 Notes
 collapse sectionAIDS, Gender, and Biomedical Discourse: Current Contests for Meaning
 Introduction: AIDS and the Challenge to Semantic Imperialism
 The Evolving Body of the Gendered "AIDS Patient" in Biomedical Discourse
 Rock Hudson and the Crisis in Gender
 AIDS Goes Heterosexual
 Women and AIDS: Toward a Feminist Analysis
 Notes
 collapse sectionIn the Eye of the Storm: The Epidemiological Construction of AIDS
 Epidemiology and Public Health
 Case-Finding and Surveillance
 The "Life-Style" Hypothesis: Experimental Work
 An Unknown Transmissible Agent
 AIDS: "The Story of a Virus"
 Conclusion
 Notes
 collapse sectionLegitimation through Disaster: AIDS and the Gay Movement
 The Problems of Prevention: Public Health Versus Discrimination
 AIDS and Gay Rights: Progress or Reversal?
 The Consequences of Cooperation between Gay Organizations and the State
 National Differences
 New Perceptions of Homosexuality
 Notes
 collapse sectionAIDS and the American Health Polity: The History and Prospects of a Crisis of Authority
 collapse sectionThe Health Polity in 1981
 The Declining Importance of Infectious Disease
 Increasing Priority of Chronic Degenerative Disease
 Individual Responsibility for Health
 The Unfulfilled Promise of Science
 From Comprehensive Services to Cost Control
 The Crisis of Authority
 collapse sectionThe Health Polity Responds to AIDS
 collapse sectionThe Modern Response to Epidemic Disease
 Surveillance
 Research
 Cost of Treatment
 Patient Services
 collapse sectionAIDS and the Future of the Health Polity
 A Polemical Interpretation of Recent History
 The Persistence of the Unexpected
 The Limits of Individual Responsibility
 The Reassertion of Central Authority
 Notes

  Notes on Contributors
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