Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic McKay Richard A. Paperback
Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic McKay Richard A. Paperback The search for a "patient zero"--popularly understood to be the first person infected in an epidemic--has been key to media…
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Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic McKay Richard A. Paperback
The search for a "patient zero"--popularly understood to be the first person infected in an epidemic--has been key to media coverage of major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. How did this idea so swiftly come to exert such a strong grip on the scientific, media, and popular consciousness? Yet the term itself did not exist before the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.
McKay interprets a wealth of archival sources and interviews to demonstrate how this seemingly new concept drew upon centuries-old ideas--and fears--about contagion and social disorder.McKay presents a carefully documented and sensitively written account of the life of Ga tan 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 In Patient Zero, Richard A.