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AIDS at 30 : a history  Cover Image Book Book

AIDS at 30 : a history / Victoria A. Harden.

Summary:

"Award-winning medical historian Victoria A. Harden approaches the AIDS virus from philosophical and intellectual perspectives in the history of medical science, discussing the process of scientific discovery, scientific evidence, and how laboratories found the cause of AIDS and developed therapeutic interventions. Furthermore, her book defines AIDS as the first infectious disease to be recognized simultaneously worldwide as a single phenomenon."--Jacket.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1597972940
  • Physical Description: xvi, 324 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, c2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-306) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Machine generated contents note: 1. What Is This New Disease? -- 2. Searching for the Cause of AIDS -- 3. Clinical Research, Epidemic of Fear, and AIDS in the Worldwide Blood Supply -- 4. AIDS as a Cultural Phenomenon -- 5. AIDS Therapy -- 6. Communicating AIDS -- 7. Global Epidemic -- 8. Third Decade.
Subject: AIDS (Disease) > History.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > history.
History, 20th Century.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at University College of the North Libraries.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
The Pas Campus Library RA 643.8 .H37 2012 (Text) 58500000435651 Stacks Volume hold Available -


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