New Republic
A decade ago, in a graduate seminar on “problems” in the history of medicine, my classmates and I began noticing something we came to call “the AIDS epilogue.” A great many books by historians of public health and medicine, it seemed, ended by invoking a condition that had not previously received much focus in their pages: HIV/AIDS…
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The Tragedy of Ryan White
Scott W. Stern
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A decade ago, in a graduate seminar on “problems” in the history of medicine, my classmates and I began noticing something we came to call “the AIDS epilogue.” A great many books by historians of public health and medicine, it seemed, ended by invoking a condition that had not previously received much focus in their
