AIDS and Contemporary History

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Acknowledgements
Introduction: AIDS and contemporary history Virginia Berridge
Part I. The Pre-history of AIDS:
1. AIDS and the regulation of sexuality Jeffrey Weeks
2. Public health doctors and AIDS as a public health issue Jane Lewis
3. Politics and policy: historical perspectives on screening Bridget Towers
4. Testing for a sexually transmissible disease, 1907–1970: the history of the Wassermann reaction Ilana Löwy
5. The politics of international co-ordination to combat sexually transmitted diseases, 1900–1980s Paul Weindling
6. Hepatitis B as a model (and anti-model) for AIDS William Muraskin
Part II. AIDS as History:
7. AIDS and British drug policy: continuity or change? Virginia Berridge
8. The New York needle trial: the politics of public health in the age of AIDS Warwick Anderson
9. Context for a new disease: aspects of biomedical research policy in the United States before AIDS Victoria A. Harden and Dennis Rodrigues
10. The NHS responds to HIV/AIDS Ewan Ferlie
11. A fall in interest? British AIDS policy, 1986–1990 John Street
12. AIDS policies in France Monika Steffen
Appendix: AIDS: the archive potential Janet Foster
Index.

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