About the Author

Virginia Berridge is Reader in History at the Health Promotion Sciences Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London.

Reviews

`serves as a model of how contemporary history should be professionally addressed ... it has successfully accumulated evidence from a wide range of sources and respondents in order to recreate the confusion, jealousies, excitement and anxieties of those involved in formulating and implementing AIDS policy ... the book triumphantly reaffirms the relevance of social history to current policy.'
Rodney Lowe, Social History Bulletin
`Berridge's skill as a historian has never been shown to better advantage. She steers her way through a mass of diffuse material with the skill of a tightrope walker, always keeping her balance. The result is a work of considerable scholarship which manages to be as riveting as a thriller. A considerable achievement'
Irvine Loudon, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
`Her book is coolly written, impressively (but not, as it could so easily be, overwhelmingly) detailed and judicious throughout. She weaves together the strands of science, medicine, policy and culture in a richly worked account of the AIDs years in Britain which will interest anyone who wants ot reflect on the AIDS experience'
Times Higher Education Supplement
`Virginia Berridge has done an excellent job...AIDS in the UK can be highly recommended not only to all those in Britain who have been concerned with AIDS in the past 15 years but also to everyone who is interested in reading how the United Kingdom has handled the AIDS epidemic until now.'
British Medical Journal
`a wide range of sources - including interviews with activists, acaemics, doctors and senior government officials - means that it casts light on a range of issues thrown up by the Aids crisis ... An admirably judicious study ... This is an important and valuable book.'
Jeffrey Weeks, New Statesman & Society