AIDS and the historian
Subtitle: proceedings of a conference at the National Institutes of Health, 20-21 March 1989
By: edited by Victoria A. Harden and Guenter B. Risse
Series: NIH publication -- no. 91-1584
Publisher: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Bethesda, Md.
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
Subjects: Public Policy; Disease Outbreaks; History; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; AIDS (Disease); Congresses; Epidemics; Medical policy; Health Policy
Notes: "March 1991"--t.p.

"Sponsors: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, ... [et al.]"--t.p.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Epidemics before AIDS : a new research program / Guenter B. Risse; title: Popular and public health responses to tuberculosis in America after 1870 / David F. Musto; title: New York City epidemics and history for the public / Bert Hansen. Commentary / Caroline Hannaway; title: The biomedical response to AIDS in historical perspective / Victoria A. Harden; title: Historical factors in federal AIDS prevention efforts sponsored by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control / Theodore Hammet and Michael Gross; title: Basic research related to AIDS / Alan N. Schechter; title: Social and biological origins of the AIDS pandemic / Bernardino Fantini. Commentary / Jack Pressman; title: Images of AIDS : the poster record / William H. Helfand.; title: The contemporary historiography of AIDS / Daniel M. Fox and Elizabeth Fee; title: AIDS and deceptive therapies / James Harvey Young; title: The social history of the impact of AIDS in the United Kingdom / Virginia Berridge; title: Community-based response to AIDS / Paul Kawata. Commentary / Suzanne White; title: Documentation in the federal government for the history of AIDS / Peter B. Hirtle; title: The artifactual legacy of AIDS / Ramunas Kondratas; title: Documenting AIDS : the role of the university and other agencies / Nancy W. Zinn. Commentary / John Parascandola.