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AIDS and contemporary history / edited by Virginia Berridge and Philip Strong
Bib ID 1383368
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Description Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993 
x, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 
ISBN 0521414776 (hardback) 
Series

Cambridge history of medicine

Full contents
  • Introduction: AIDS and contemporary history / Virginia Berridge
  • 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 Lowy. 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
  • 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.
 
Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects AIDS (Disease) - History.
Other authors/contributors Berridge, Virginia  |  Strong, Philip, 1945-

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