AIDS and contemporary history / edited by Virginia Berridge and Philip Strong.

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

x, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographic references and index

Introduction : AIDS and contemporary history / Virginia Berridge -- AIDS and the regulation of sexuality / Jeffrey Weeks -- Public health doctors and AIDS as a public health issue / Jane Lewis -- Politics and policy : historical perspectives on screening / Bridget Towers -- Testing for a sexually transmissible disease, 1907-1970 : the history of the Wassermann reaction / Ilana Löwy -- The politics of international co-ordination to combat sexually transmitted diseases, 1900-1980s / Paul Weindling -- Hepatitis B as a model (and anti-model) for AIDS / William Muraskin -- AIDS and British drug policy : continuity or change? / Virginia Berridge -- The New York needle trial : the politics of public health in the age of AIDS / Warwick Anderson -- Context for a new disease : aspects of biomedical research policy in the United States before AIDS / Victoria A. Harden and Dennis Rodrigues

The NHS responds to HIV/AIDS / Ewan Ferlie -- A fall in interest? : British AIDS policy, 1986-1990 / John Street -- AIDS policies in France / Monika Steffen -- Appendix : AIDS : the archive potential / Janet Foster.

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