AIDS at 30 : a history / Victoria A. Harden.
"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. |
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Subject: | AIDS (Disease) > History. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > history. History, 20th Century. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at University College of the North Libraries.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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The Pas Campus Library | RA 643.8 .H37 2012 (Text) | 58500000435651 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |