When AIDS Began: San Francisco and the Making of an Epidemic (repost)
When AIDS Began: San Francisco and the Making of an Epidemic
Routledge | 2003-11-13 | ISBN: 0415924308 | 320 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Routledge | 2003-11-13 | ISBN: 0415924308 | 320 pages | PDF | 3 MB
As the AIDS crisis reaches new heights globally with no cure in the immediate future, the time is ripe to step back and examine the roots of this epidemic. In When AIDS Began, Michelle Cochrane constructs the making of the disease and expels many of the misconceptions that surround it. By examining the early outbreaks in San Francisco, she unfolds the "creation" of this disease in one geographic location and then traces how and why major claims about the transmission of HIV were made, extrapolated and then disseminated to the rest of the world - all important factors in understanding.