Plague-Making and the AIDS Epidemic: A Story of Discrimination

Plague-Making and the AIDS Epidemic: A Story of Discrimination
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 9781137011220
ISBN-13 : 113701122X
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Download or read book Plague-Making and the AIDS Epidemic: A Story of Discrimination written by G. Bright and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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