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Plague-Making and the AIDS Epidemic
Gina M. Bright
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Description for Plague-Making and the AIDS Epidemic
Paperback. This book explores how the cultural process of making any disease a "plague" results in discrimination against certain groups, as it has for those with AIDS in America. Gina M. Bright here captures the discrimination produced by plague-making in her analysis and her portraits of the people she has cared for with AIDS over the past quarter-century. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJK; HBL; JHB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
This book explores how the cultural process of making any disease a "plague" results in discrimination against certain groups, as it has for those with AIDS in America. Gina M. Bright here captures the discrimination produced by plague-making in her analysis and her portraits of the people she has cared for with AIDS over the past quarter-century.
This book explores how the cultural process of making any disease a "plague" results in discrimination against certain groups, as it has for those with AIDS in America. Gina M. Bright here captures the discrimination produced by plague-making in her analysis and her portraits of the people she has cared for with AIDS over the past quarter-century.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
Number of Pages
207
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349343362
SKU
V9781349343362
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99-15
About Gina M. Bright
GINA M. BRIGHT is a senior oncology nurse at Virginia Oncology Associates, USA.
Reviews for Plague-Making and the AIDS Epidemic
"Plague-Making and the AIDS Epidemic discusses and reviews how people diagnosed with AIDS were treated physically and emotionally by health care professionals, the media, and the lay public and compares AIDS with previous plagues. The outcome for people with AIDS has changed drastically over the last 30 years - health care providers and historians alike should read Bright's book." ... Read more