deliberate spreading in, 57, 75– 76, 229–
suit) against, 82– 84, 90, 94– 95; cluster
35, 317– 42, 351– 52; transnational na-
testing approach to treatment for, 84–
ture of, 27– 29, 280. See also causation
87, 90– 92; origin stories of, 67; public
models of AIDS
health tracing techniques of, 56– 57, 63,
transnational approaches, 20– 27, 286– 88;
79– 84, 85n17, 90– 94; risk populations
to HIV/AIDS research and activism,
for, 85– 94; Tuskegee study of, 86n24,
252; to public health system coordina-
87n25, 95. See also pox (French Dis-
tion, 273– 77, 282– 83, 284, 364; regional
ease); sexually transmitted diseases
variations and, 22– 27, 277– 80; on trans-
(STDs)
mission of disease, 27– 29, 280
Syphilis (Fracastoro), 67
treatment regimens: combination therapy
Szasz, Thomas, 24n71
(HAART) in, 16, 249, 287– 88; politics
of, 258; side- effects of, 16
testing for HIV, 7, 10, 38– 39, 120, 347
Treichler, Paula, 5
Thomas, Polly, 104
Truth About AIDS, The (Fettner and
Thucydides, 47
Check), 313
432
Index
Tsoukas, Christos, 174n126, 315– 16
voluntary service organizations, 15– 16, 21,
tuberculosis, 28, 29n85, 70, 84n16
187– 88, 264– 67, 285
Turner, Dan, 169– 70, 172, 227
Tuskegee syphilis study, 86n24, 87n25, 95
Wald, Priscilla, 141, 204, 291– 92
typhoid, 70– 75, 292– 93
Walsh, Gary, 158, 160, 165
“Typhoid Mary.” See Mallon, Mary
water- based plague anxieties, 47
( “Typhoid Mary”)
Watkins, James, 234
Watson, Elaine, 349n195
“Unequal Match” (Erasmus), 62
Waxman, Henry, 157– 58
United in Anger, 15– 16n45
“We Know Who We Are” (Callen and
U.S. Department of Education, 230– 32
Berkowitz), 173
U.S. government policies, 21, 180, 189, 211;
Welsh, Michael, 346
on funding for prevention and treat-
White, Edmund, 68
ment, 222, 258; Ryan White Compre-
White, Ryan, 236n124
hensive AIDS Resources Emergency
Wiesner, Paul, 96, 277
Act of 1990, 236– 37; Shilts’s response
William, Dan, 313
to, 160, 180– 81, 194– 95; on testing
William Randolph Hearst Foundation,
for HIV, 187, 189, 234; on transmis-
146– 47
sion of disease, 228– 37; on travel by
Willoughby, Brian, 69n87, 175–76, 278– 79,
PWAs, 252. See also Reagan (Ronald)
336– 37, 340– 41
administration
Willrich, Michael, 44n4
Wilson, Hank, 325
Vancouver (Canada): AIDS activism in,
Wiltshire, John, 292n9
188, 201, 331– 37, 345– 47, 364– 65;
Woolgar, Steve, 116n105
AIDS Memorial of, 242; SARS out-
World AIDS Conferences. See Inter-
breaks in, 360
national AIDS Conferences
Vancouver Gay Community Centre News,
World Health Organization, 279,
332– 34
279– 80n82
vectors of disease, 43
World Pride of 2014, 354– 55
venereal disease (VD), 26. See also sexu-
Worobey, Michael, 13n34
ally transmitted diseases (STDs)
Verghese, Abraham, 225– 26
yellow fever, 75, 108n93
victims (as contested term), 113n100,
Young, Allen, 96– 97
144 f, 214 f, 228n96, 261; constructions
of differences in culpability of, 230–
Zaire region, 10– 13
33, 265n54, 320, 339; PWAs rejec-
Zero Factor, The (Moir), 124n129
tion of characterization of, 169–70n106,
Zero Patience (Greyson), 40, 216, 246n1,
238
248– 58, 259 f, 285– 88, 375; challenge to
“Victim Zero Story, The” (Damski),
Patient Zero story in, 253– 56, 287– 88;
238– 39
critical response to, 255– 57, 292; politi-
visual representations. See images of clus-
cal context of, 250; promotion and dis-
ter study data
tribution of, 257– 58, 259 f
Volberding, Paul, 117, 312n73
Zero Patience: A Queer Film Classic
Voltaire, 56– 57, 133– 34
(Knabe and Pearson), 250
Document Outline
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 0. Introduction: “He Is Still Out There”
Chapter 1. What Came Before Zero?
Chapter 2. The Cluster Study
Chapter 3. “Humanizing This Disease”
Chapter 4. Giving a Face to the Epidemic
Chapter 5. Ghosts and Blood
Chapter 6. Locating Gaétan Dugas’s Views
Epilogue: Zero Hour— Making Histories of the North American AIDS Epidemic
Appendix: Oral History Interviews
Bibliography
Index
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