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Plague-making and the AIDS epidemic : a story of discrimination / Gina M. Bright.

Bright, Gina M., 1965- (Author).

Summary:

Since its appearance in the United States, AIDS has been called a plague. Yet when we view AIDS in the cultural of other diseases named as plagues throughout history, it appears that many diseases become plagues because they are associated with unaccepted behaviours and marginalized groups. 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 the U.S. 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780230340718 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0230340717 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: 207 p. ; 23 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Why I wrote this book -- What is plague? -- Fourteenth-century Europe -- Fifteenth- through seventeenth-century Europe -- The nineteenth through twentieth centuries -- The making of a plague (1981-1986) -- Solidifying plague (1987-1989) -- Living with plague (1990-1994) -- Reflections (1995-2000) -- Reticence (2001-2010) -- Conclusions: the legacy of plague-making -- Index.