Plague-Making and the AIDS Epidemic: A Story of Discrimination [electronic resource] /
Bright, G.author.
This book explores how the cultural process of making any disease a "plague" results in discrimination against certain groups, as it has for those with AIDS in America. Gina M. Bright here captures the discrimination produced by plague-making in her analysis and her portraits of the people she has cared for with AIDS over the past quarter-century.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I: Introduction; 1 Why I Wrote This Book; 2 What Is Plague?; Part II: Bubonic Plague; 3 Fourteenth-Century Europe; 4 Fifteenth- through Seventeenth-Century Europe; 5 The Nineteenth through Twentieth Centuries; Part III: The Emergence of AIDS; 6 The Making of a Plague (1981-1986); 7 Solidifying Plague (1987-1989); 8 Living with Plague (1990-1994); Part IV: The Endurance of AIDS; 9 Reflections (1995-2000); 10 Reticence (2001-2010); Conclusions: The Legacy of Plague-Making; Notes; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book explores how the cultural process of making any disease a "plague" results in discrimination against certain groups, as it has for those with AIDS in America. Gina M. Bright here captures the discrimination produced by plague-making in her analysis and her portraits of the people she has cared for with AIDS over the past quarter-century.
World history.
Political sociology.
United States—History.
History, Modern.
Europe—Politics and government.
Social policy.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Political Sociology.
US History.
Modern History.
European Politics.
Social Policy.