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This collection of essays offers a wide-ranging examination of the place of AIDS in gay activism, literature, film, news reporting and gay culture. The contributors stress the connection between language and moral responsibility.
Chicago's War on Syphilis, 1937-40
The Times, the "Trib," and the Clap Doctor
Inbunden, Engelska, 1995
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"An eye for colorful vignettes and anecdotes. On target! She recognizesthe importance of her subject." -- Thomas N. Bonner, author of To the Ends of the Earth: Women's Search for Education in MedicineThose struggling to deal with the AIDS epidemic might learn valuablelessons from the earlier struggle of the U.S. to deal with syphilis. Here,Suzanne Poirier tells the story of the Chicago Syphilis Control Programlaunched in 1937 by the Chicago Board of Health and the U.S. Public HealthService and severely limited from the start because of the refusal ofgovernment, the press, and the public to confront directly the issuesunderlying the problem.Poirier's narrative is memorable for its vivid scenes, colorful charactersthat include Chicago's "clap doctor," Dr. Ben Reitman, and itsaccount of the heated debate that surrounded the effort. In an epilogue,the author discusses similarities between current efforts against AIDSand the handling and politics of the syphilis problem in the late 1930s.
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In an increasingly diverse society, it is essential that medicine be aware of matters of difference. Medical humanities programs promote awareness of the social aspects of medicine, and the Association of American Medical Colleges has recently instituted cultural competencies for clinical interaction for the training of medical students. Yet these efforts to impart understanding of the cross-cultural aspects of medicine are still hindered by a significant limitation: within a medical system whose currency is diagnosis, difference is primarily defined through disease. This special issue of Literature and Medicine focuses on difference and identity in the context of disease and disability. The articles collected here explore the complex ways in which notions of disease, disability, and difference are related and in which bodies marked by gender, race, disability, sexuality, and ethnic identities experience disease in specific ways. The essays take a humanities-based approach to the subject and emphasize an awareness and sensitivity to difference through forms of symbolic representation such as metaphor and narrative.This volume provides a heuristic lens through which relationships between individual expressions of identity and communal experiences of difference can be considered. Each article speaks to the process whereby individual stories and strategies shape, and are in turn shaped by, the institutions they seek to transform. Literature and Medicine is devoted to exploring interfaces between literary and medical knowledge and understanding. The journal showcases the creative and critical work of renowned physician-writers, leading literary scholars, and medical humanists.