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Patient zero and the making of the AIDS epidemic /

In Patient Zero, Richard A. McKay presents a carefully documented and sensitively written account of the life of Gaâetan Dugas, a gay man whose skin cancer diagnosis in 1980 took on very different meanings as the HIV/AIDS epidemic developed-and who received widespread posthumous infamy when he was i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McKay, Richard Andrew, 1978- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Dugas, Gaââetan, > 1952-1984.
AIDS (Disease) > North America > History.
Epidemics > North America.
AIDS (Disease) > North America > Historiography.
AIDS (Disease) > Patients.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > history.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > epidemiology.
Biomedical Research > history.
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.
North America > epidemiology.
Ebooks.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : "he is still out there"
  • What came before zero?
  • The cluster study
  • "Humanizing this disease"
  • Giving a face to the epidemic
  • Ghosts and blood
  • Locating Gaâetan Dugas's views
  • Epilogue : zero hour : making histories of the North American AIDS epidemic
  • Appendix : oral History interviews.