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10 Books About the AIDS Epidemic You Need to Read To the Wedding by John Berger () Push by Sapphire () City Boy by Edmund White ()Author: JW Mccormack. AIDS at 30 is the first history of HIV/AIDS written for a general audience that emphasizes the medical response to the -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 Cited by: one of the most important books ever about hiv and aids activism.

Finkelstein makes the reader understand how ACT UP acctually worked and functioned, succeeded, and then collapsed. it's a complicated story and has never been told this clearly, as well as being beautifully written.5/5(5). Here is what I mean: Throughout the book the terms HIV and AIDS are used interchangeably; they are not interchangeable.

As it has been used since HIV testing became available, inAIDS refers to the advanced stage of HIV disease (the preferred term for the spectrum of HIV-related infection and illness) at which the virus has seriously damaged the immune system/5(13).

The section on AIDS as history presents chapters by historians and policy scientists on such topics as British and US drugs policy, the later years of AIDS policies in the UK and the emergence of AIDS as a political issue in France.

A final chapter looks at the archival potential in the AIDS area. I read The Epidemic hoping to find new, useful information to use in updating my own AIDS history, Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America (University of Chicago Press).

I have to admit I was skeptical that any book could capture the global breadth of the HIV pandemic, and The Epidemic proved my skepticism by: As far as the origins of AIDS are concerned, unless some completely new evidence Aids to history.

book, it will be difficult to Aids to history. book up with a better explanation than Pepin's." -Science "This is a beautifully written book, which explains epidemiological and scientific concepts such as /5(60).

The second section is mostly devoted to a history of studying AIDS itself: the laborious process of identifying HIV, its genetic structure, its method of reproduction, and the search for a cure. The third section is roughly devoted to histories of AIDS around the world, This book is a summary of AIDS and its spread around the world, primarily in the post period/5.

Let’s talk about your next book. This is Randy Shilts’s And The Band Played On (), about the early Aids epidemic. Randy was a San Francisco Chronicle newspaper reporter and knew the gay community well. He saw the Aids epidemic evolving. He was concerned because his friends were infected and some of them were dying.

How AIDS Changed America; the Plague Years: It Brought out the Worst in Us at First, but Ultimately It Brought out the Best, and Transformed the Nation. the Story of a Disease That Left an Indelible Mark on Our History, Our Culture and Our Souls By Jefferson, David Newsweek,   READ MORE: Pandemics That Changed History: A Timeline The AIDS Epidemic Arises Though HIV arrived in the United States aroundit didn’t come to.

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic is a book by San Francisco Chronicle journalist Randy book chronicles the discovery and spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) with a special emphasis on government indifference and political infighting—specifically in the United States—to Author: Randy Shilts.

This excellent but frustrating book is essential reading for anyone deeply interested in the early history and dissemination of HIV/AIDS. Interest must be deep because the author spares few details about colonial medical systems in the former French and Belgian territories, Congolese politics around independence, and a host of other obscure by: Best History Books about Epidemics.

Members: 21 participating members All members' list And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic. by Randy Shilts. 2, members, 53 reviews ( stars) () geography () health () history (6,) London () medical.

For world history, review books can make the choice to either focus exclusively on the content you need to know for the AP exam (which is what most of them do), or go more in depth and market themselves as in-class study aids as well.

Frank Educational Aids Pvt. Ltd. A, Sector - 4, Noida -Uttar Pradesh, India. These are books that chronicle the political and social history of HIV among gay men and other LGBT+ people, primarily in the United States and United Kingdom.

These are books for the people who think that the Reagan’s and Thatcher’s of our world responded to the AIDS Crisis in a way that was either helpful or humane. It is now thirty years since the discovery of AIDS but its origins continue to puzzle doctors and scientists.

Inspired by his own experiences working as an infectious diseases physician in Africa, Jacques Pepin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and traces its subsequent development into the most dramatic and destructive epidemic 4/5(1).

AIDS was not an early crisis that finally abated; it was a slowly building mass death experience. The year with the most corpses in America was. The advent of AIDS has led to a revival of interest in the historical relationship of disease to society.

There now exists a new consciousness of AIDS and history, and of AIDS itself as an historic event. This provides the starting-point of this collection of essays. Its twin themes are the 'pre-history' of the impact of AIDS, and its subsequent history.

Suggested Citation:"BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES."Institute of Medicine. AIDS and Behavior: An Integrated gton, DC: The National Academies Press.The WHO released its comprehensive report examining HIV and AIDS in all of its year history in This report had good news for developed nations: bythe U.S.

domestic HIV infection rate was considered effectively stable, and has remained so to this day.Prevalence and distribution of HIV/AIDS. According to data published by the World Health Organization (WHO), about million people were living with HIV, approximately million people were newly infected with HIV, and about 1 million people died of HIV-related causes in Since about 35 million people have died from HIV infection.

In the early 21st century, however, the annual.