Book Title: AIDS
Description: The AIDS epidemic has posed more urgent historical questions than any other disease of modern times. How have societies responded to epidemics in the past? Why did the disease emerge when and where it did? How has it spread among members of particular groups? And how will the past affect the future--in particular, what does the history of medical science and public health tell us about our ability to control the epidemic and eventually to cure the disease?
Historical methods of inquiry change, and people who use these methods often disagree on theory and practice. Indeed, the contributors to this volume hold a variety of opinions on controversial historiographic issues. But they share three important principles: cautious adherence to the "social constructionist" view of past and p...
Historical methods of inquiry change, and people who use these methods often disagree on theory and practice. Indeed, the contributors to this volume hold a variety of opinions on controversial historiographic issues. But they share three important principles: cautious adherence to the "social constructionist" view of past and p...
Bibliographic information
Author(s): Elizabeth Fee Daniel M. Fox
Publisher(s): University of California Press
Publish Date: 1988
Book Pages: 362
Industry Identifier: ISBN_10: 0520063961
Cover: External Link
Subjects: History / General • Medical / Diseases • Medical / AIDS & HIV • Medical / Health Care Delivery
Book Dimentions
Height: 24.00 cm
Width: 23.00 cm
Thickness: 2.20 cm
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