Preface
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Introduction / Emerging Illness as Social Process
Part I: Making Illnesses Visible
Chapter 2. The Combined Efforts of Community and Science / American
Culture, Patient Activism, and the Multiple Sclerosis Movement in
the United States
Chapter 3. Competing Medical Cultures, Patient Support Groups, and
the Construction of Tourette Syndrome
Chapter 4. Democracy, Expertise, and Activism for AIDS
Treatment
Chapter 5. Communities of Suffering and the Internet
Chapter 6. Illness Movements and the Medical Classification of Pain
and Fatigue
Chapter 7. The Newtown Florist Club and the Quest for Environmental
Justice in Gainesville, Georgia
Chapter 8. Occupational Health from Below / The Women Office
Workers' Movement and the Hazardous Office
Part II: Institutional Responses to Emerging Illnesses
Chapter 9. "Always with Us" / Childhood Lead Poisoning as an
Emerging Illness
Chapter 10. The Cultural Politics of Institutional Responses to
Resurgent Tuberculosis Epidemics / New York City and Lima, Peru
Chapter 11. Institutional Responses to the Emergence of Lyme
Disease and Its Companion Infections in North America / A Public
Health Perspective
Chapter 12. The Politics of Institutional Responses / CDC and the
Controversy over Maternal and Newborn HIV Testing
Chapter 13. Emerging Infections and the CDC Response
Chapter 14. Hepatitis C and the News Media / Lessons from AIDS
List of Contributors
Index
Randall M. Packard is director of the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University. Peter J. Brown is co-director of the Center for Health, Culture and Society at Emory University. Ruth L. Berkelman, is a clinician and professor of epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Howard Frumkin is chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.
A valuable book on a topic that I have not see covered elsewhere. The examples are well thought out and cover a broad range of topics. Doody's Book Review Service Most useful for the collections of hospitals and college and university libraries supporting undergraduate and graduate programs in allied health, medicine, nursing and public health, although public librarians may also wish to add this work for its depth of background on and breadth of discussion of an often tangled subject. E-Streams Scholarly and well-written... should be of great interest to both historians and modern researchers interested in the overlap between social processes and public health, and is deserving of critical attention. Medical History
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