Aids and Contemporary History

Klappentext A collection of essays on the 'pre-history' of the impact of AIDS! and its subsequent history. Zusammenfassung The advent of AIDS has led to a revival of interest in the historical relationship of disease to society. There now exists a new consciousness of AIDS and history! and of AIDS itself as an historic event. This is the starting-point of this collection of essays. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction: AIDS and contemporary history Virginia Berridge; Part I. The Pre-history of AIDS: 1. AIDS and the regulation of sexuality Jeffrey Weeks; 2. Public health doctors and AIDS as a public health issue Jane Lewis; 3. Politics and policy: historical perspectives on screening Bridget Towers; 4. Testing for a sexually transmissible disease, 1907-1970: the history of the Wassermann reaction Ilana Löwy; 5. The politics of international co-ordination to combat sexually transmitted diseases, 1900-1980s Paul Weindling; 6. Hepatitis B as a model (and anti-model) for AIDS William Muraskin; Part II. AIDS as History: 7. AIDS and British drug policy: continuity or change? Virginia Berridge; 8. The New York needle trial: the politics of public health in the age of AIDS Warwick Anderson; 9. Context for a new disease: aspects of biomedical research policy in the United States before AIDS Victoria A. Harden and Dennis Rodrigues; 10. The NHS responds to HIV/AIDS Ewan Ferlie; 11. A fall in interest? British AIDS policy, 1986-1990 John Street; 12. AIDS policies in France Monika Steffen; Appendix: AIDS: the archive potential Janet Foster; Index.

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• Authors: Virginia Berridge, Virginia Strong Berridge
• Assisted by: Virginia Berridge (Editor), Colin Jones (Editor), Charles Rosenberg (Editor), Philip Strong (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.08.2002
• EAN: 9780521521147
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52114-7
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Histo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories