AIDS at 30: A History - Hardcover
Society was not prepared in 1981 for the appearance of a new infectious disease, but we have since learned that emerging and re-emerging diseases will continue to challenge humanity. AIDS at 30 is the first history of HIV/AIDS written for a general audience that emphasises the medical response to the epidemic.
Award-winning medical historian Victoria A. Harden approaches the AIDS virus from philosophical and intellectual perspectives in the history of medical science, discussing the process of scientific discovery, scientific evidence, and how laboratories found the cause of AIDS and developed therapeutic interventions. Similarly, her book places AIDS as the first infectious disease to be recognised simultaneously worldwide as a single phenomenon.
After years of believing that vaccines and antibiotics would keep deadly epidemics away, researchers, doctors, patients, and the public were forced to abandon the arrogant assumption that they had conquered infectious diseases. By presenting an accessible discussion of the history of HIV/AIDS and analysing how aspects of society advanced or hindered the response to the disease,"AIDS at 30" illustrates for both medical professionals and general readers how medicine identifies and evaluates new infectious diseases quickly and what political and cultural factors limit the medical community's response.
Award-winning medical historian Victoria A. Harden approaches the AIDS virus from philosophical and intellectual perspectives in the history of medical science, discussing the process of scientific discovery, scientific evidence, and how laboratories found the cause of AIDS and developed therapeutic interventions. Similarly, her book places AIDS as the first infectious disease to be recognised simultaneously worldwide as a single phenomenon.
After years of believing that vaccines and antibiotics would keep deadly epidemics away, researchers, doctors, patients, and the public were forced to abandon the arrogant assumption that they had conquered infectious diseases. By presenting an accessible discussion of the history of HIV/AIDS and analysing how aspects of society advanced or hindered the response to the disease,"AIDS at 30" illustrates for both medical professionals and general readers how medicine identifies and evaluates new infectious diseases quickly and what political and cultural factors limit the medical community's response.
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Review:
"A succinct and complete narration./i>--David Olle "New York Journal of Books "
""AIDS at 30" stands out from other books about one of the most important medical challenges of our time. It is not only a good read, but is accurate and insightful. Getting the story right is a big deal in this field. Barbara J. Culliton, president, The Culliton Group, and former news editor, "Science," and deputy editor, "Nature"--Barbara J. Culliton"
"A succinct and complete narration." David Olle, "New York Journal of Books"--David Olle "New York Journal of Books ""
"A succinct and complete narration." David Olle, New York Journal of Books--David Olle "New York Journal of Books ""
"Through the voices of many key players, Harden has provided new insights into the complex history of AIDS."--Peter Piot, director, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and former executive director, UNAIDS--Peter Piot
"AIDS at 30 stands out from other books about one of the most important medical challenges of our time. It is not only a good read, but is accurate and insightful. Getting the story right is a big deal in this field."--Barbara J. Culliton, president, The Culliton Group, and former news editor, Science, and deputy editor, Nature--Barbara J. Culliton
"Harden brings her masterful command of NIH history to bear in a narrative of the first thirty years of this devastating epidemic. With a deft hand she lays out the path of discovery, from finding the culprit virus through the current drug regimens that have brought it under control, all the while making complex scientific ideas available to the lay reader. Its comprehensive survey tells the story from the beginning, and its references will guide students to myriad further research topics, both U.S. and global. Although the history of HIV/AIDS will be continuously rewritten, this work should stand the test of time for years to come and be the place to start for future historians of the epidemic."--Margaret Humphreys, Josiah Charles Trent Professor in the History of Medicine, Duke University--Margaret Humphreys
"A succinct and complete narration."--David Olle, New York Journal of Books--David Olle "New York Journal of Books "
"This is the most comprehensive history of the AIDS epidemic published to date. It should be read by anyone interested in global health."--Kenrad E./I>--Kenrad E. Nelson "American Journal of Epidemiology "
-Through the voices of many key players, Harden has provided new insights into the complex history of AIDS.---Peter Piot, director, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and former executive director, UNAIDS--Peter Piot
-AIDS at 30 stands out from other books about one of the most important medical challenges of our time. It is not only a good read, but is accurate and insightful. Getting the story right is a big deal in this field.---Barbara J. Culliton, president, The Culliton Group, and former news editor, Science, and deputy editor, Nature--Barbara J. Culliton
-Harden brings her masterful command of NIH history to bear in a narrative of the first thirty years of this devastating epidemic. With a deft hand she lays out the path of discovery, from finding the culprit virus through the current drug regimens that have brought it under control, all the while making complex scientific ideas available to the lay reader. Its comprehensive survey tells the story from the beginning, and its references will guide students to myriad further research topics, both U.S. and global. Although the history of HIV/AIDS will be continuously rewritten, this work should stand the test of time for years to come and be the place to start for future historians of the epidemic.---Margaret Humphreys, Josiah Charles Trent Professor in the History of Medicine, Duke University--Margaret Humphreys
-A succinct and complete narration.---David Olle, New York Journal of Books--David Olle -New York Journal of Books -
-This is the most comprehensive history of the AIDS epidemic published to date. It should be read by anyone interested in global health.---Kenrad E./I>--Kenrad E. Nelson -American Journal of Epidemiology -
About the Author:
""AIDS at 30" stands out from other books about one of the most important medical challenges of our time. It is not only a good read, but is accurate and insightful. Getting the story right is a big deal in this field. Barbara J. Culliton, president, The Culliton Group, and former news editor, "Science," and deputy editor, "Nature"--Barbara J. Culliton"
"A succinct and complete narration." David Olle, "New York Journal of Books"--David Olle "New York Journal of Books ""
"A succinct and complete narration." David Olle, New York Journal of Books--David Olle "New York Journal of Books ""
"Through the voices of many key players, Harden has provided new insights into the complex history of AIDS."--Peter Piot, director, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and former executive director, UNAIDS--Peter Piot
"AIDS at 30 stands out from other books about one of the most important medical challenges of our time. It is not only a good read, but is accurate and insightful. Getting the story right is a big deal in this field."--Barbara J. Culliton, president, The Culliton Group, and former news editor, Science, and deputy editor, Nature--Barbara J. Culliton
"Harden brings her masterful command of NIH history to bear in a narrative of the first thirty years of this devastating epidemic. With a deft hand she lays out the path of discovery, from finding the culprit virus through the current drug regimens that have brought it under control, all the while making complex scientific ideas available to the lay reader. Its comprehensive survey tells the story from the beginning, and its references will guide students to myriad further research topics, both U.S. and global. Although the history of HIV/AIDS will be continuously rewritten, this work should stand the test of time for years to come and be the place to start for future historians of the epidemic."--Margaret Humphreys, Josiah Charles Trent Professor in the History of Medicine, Duke University--Margaret Humphreys
"A succinct and complete narration."--David Olle, New York Journal of Books--David Olle "New York Journal of Books "
"This is the most comprehensive history of the AIDS epidemic published to date. It should be read by anyone interested in global health."--Kenrad E./I>--Kenrad E. Nelson "American Journal of Epidemiology "
-Through the voices of many key players, Harden has provided new insights into the complex history of AIDS.---Peter Piot, director, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and former executive director, UNAIDS--Peter Piot
-AIDS at 30 stands out from other books about one of the most important medical challenges of our time. It is not only a good read, but is accurate and insightful. Getting the story right is a big deal in this field.---Barbara J. Culliton, president, The Culliton Group, and former news editor, Science, and deputy editor, Nature--Barbara J. Culliton
-Harden brings her masterful command of NIH history to bear in a narrative of the first thirty years of this devastating epidemic. With a deft hand she lays out the path of discovery, from finding the culprit virus through the current drug regimens that have brought it under control, all the while making complex scientific ideas available to the lay reader. Its comprehensive survey tells the story from the beginning, and its references will guide students to myriad further research topics, both U.S. and global. Although the history of HIV/AIDS will be continuously rewritten, this work should stand the test of time for years to come and be the place to start for future historians of the epidemic.---Margaret Humphreys, Josiah Charles Trent Professor in the History of Medicine, Duke University--Margaret Humphreys
-A succinct and complete narration.---David Olle, New York Journal of Books--David Olle -New York Journal of Books -
-This is the most comprehensive history of the AIDS epidemic published to date. It should be read by anyone interested in global health.---Kenrad E./I>--Kenrad E. Nelson -American Journal of Epidemiology -
VICTORIA A. HARDEN retired in 2006 after twenty years as the founding director of the Office of NIH History at the National Institutes of Health. She has written numerous articles about AIDS and has lectured on the history of AIDS. Dr. Harden is the author of Inventing the NIH: Federal Biomedical Research Policy, 1887-1937 (Johns Hopkins, 1986) and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: History of a Twentieth-Century Disease (Johns Hopkins, 1990), the latter of which won the Henry Adams Prize from the Society for History in the Federal Government. She received the American Historical Association's 2006 Herbert Feis Award for outstanding contributions to public history. In 2007, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association for the History of Medicine. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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- PublisherPotomac Books Inc
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1597972495
- ISBN 13 9781597972499
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages304
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