Fighting for our lives : New York's AIDS community and the politics of disease / Susan M. Chambré.

  • Chambré, Susan Maizel.
Date:
[2006], ©2006
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Publication/Creation

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2006], ©2006.

Physical description

xii, 262 pages ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

List of abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- pt. 1. Uncertainty, stigma, and the creation of the AIDS community -- ch. 1. Managing the madness -- ch. 2. Fighting the victim label -- ch. 3. The invention of safe sex -- ch. 4. Fighting AIDS is everyone's business -- pt. 2. A changing epidemic -- ch. 5. The changing face of AIDS -- ch. 6. The "new Calcutta" -- pt. 3. Saving lives -- ch. 7. Our place at the table -- ch. 8. Finding a cure -- ch. 9. Clean needles save lives -- ch. 10. HIV stops with me -- ch. 11. The politics of disease -- Notes -- Index.

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    History of Medicine
    FEJ.623.AA9-10
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ISBN

  • 0813538661
  • 081353867X
  • 9780813538662
  • 9780813538679