Virginia Berridge / Philip Strong (eds.)

AIDS and Contemporary History

Herausgeber: Berridge, Virginia; Rosenberg, Charles; Jones, Colin

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays on the 'pre-history' of the impact of AIDS, and its subsequent history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780521521147
• ISBN-10: 0521521149
• Artikelnr.: 21210280

Inhaltsangabe

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.