Patient zero and the making of the AIDS epidemic / Richard A. McKay.
By: McKay, Richard Andrew [author.].
Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017Description: 432 pages ; cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780226063812 (cloth : alk. paper).Subject(s): Dugas, Gaé́tan, 1952-1984 | AIDS (Disease) -- North America -- History | Epidemics -- North America | AIDS (Disease) -- North America -- Historiography | AIDS (Disease) -- PatientsGenre/Form: Print books.Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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On Shelf | RA643.86.N7 M46 2017 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000011597 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Gaétan Dugas's views -- Epilogue: zero hour-making histories of the North American AIDS epidemic.