AIDS and Contemporary History

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Author: Virginia Berridge

ISBN-10: 0521521149

ISBN-13: 9780521521147

Category: Basic Sciences

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

Notes on contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: AIDS and contemporary history1IThe pre-history of AIDS1AIDS and the regulation of sexuality172Public health doctors and AIDS as a public health issue373Politics and policy: historical perspectives on screening554Testing for a sexually transmissible disease, 1907-1970: the history of the Wassermann reaction745The politics of international co-ordination to combat sexually transmitted diseases, 1900-1980s936Hepatitis B as a model (and anti-model) for AIDS108IIAIDS as history7AIDS and British drug policy: continuity or change?1358The New York needle trial: the politics of public health in the age of AIDS1579Context for a new disease: aspects of biomedical research policy in the United States before AIDS18210The NHS responds to HIV/AIDS20311A fall in interest? British AIDS policy, 1986-199022412AIDS policies in France240Appendix: AIDS: the archive potential265Index272