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
Contributors: National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Series: NIH publication -- no. 91-1584.; NIH publication -- no. 91-1584.
Publisher: National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Published: 1991
Place of publication: [Bethesda, MD]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
Subjects: AIDS (Disease); History; Congresses; Epidemiology
Notes: "March 1991"

"Sponsors: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institute of Dental Research, National Library of Medicine, DeWitt Stetten, Jr. Museum of Medical Research, University of California, San Francisco."

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available freely online.
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.