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Author:

Chambré, Susan Maizel.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Rutgers University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xii, 262 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

AIDS (Disease)--New York--New York--History.
AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--New York.--New York.
AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects--New York.--New York.
AIDS (Disease)--History.--Services for--New York--New York--History.
Community health services--New York--New York--History.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--history--New York City.
Politics--New York City.
Consumer Advocacy--New York City.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Index. Preface -- Introduction -- ch. 11. The 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.

Series:

Critical issues in health and medicine

ISBN:

9780813538679 (pbk. : alk. paper)
081353867X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813538662 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813538661 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2005035909

Locations:

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)