Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic
By: Richard A. McKay
4.08
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Now an award-winning documentary feature film The search for a “patient zero”—popularly understood…
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1. When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
By: Cleve Jones
4.34
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
The partial inspiration for the forthcoming ABC television mini-series from Academy Award-winning s… read more
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2. Visions and Revisions: Coming of Age in the Age of AIDS
By: Dale Peck
4.18
Format: None pages,
Novelist and critic Dale Peck's latest work--part memoir, part extended essay--is a foray into what… read more
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3. How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
By: David France
3.50
Format: 31 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic from the creator of, and … read more
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4. The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
By: Paul Starr
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark hi… read more
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5. The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866
By: Charles E. Rosenberg
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the … read more
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6. Notes of a Native Son
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introdu… read more
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7. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
By: William Greider , Randy Shilts
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the… read more
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8. Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis
By: Jennifer Brier
3.83
Format: 95 pages, Hardcover
Viewing contemporary history from the perspective of the AIDS crisis, Jennifer Brier provides rich,… read more
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9. The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government
By: None
4.57
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
The McCarthy era is generally considered the worst period of political repression in recent America… read more
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10. Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages,
In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweekas "one of the … read more
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11. The Last Jew of Treblinka
By: Chil Rajchman
4.35
Format: 138 pages, Hardcover
Before me sits a young woman. I cut off her hair, thick and beautiful, and she grasps my hand and b… read more
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"I weep for my fate, for what I have left to see."-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka
"I look around and think: Good God, what kind of hell is this?"-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka
"I am as if paralysed: over there in the chamber the gas people and we are supposed to sing!"-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka
"Once, when I straighten up, I am beaten till I bleed. I no longer know where I am in the world."-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka
12. Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
By: Deirdre Cooper Owens
4.14
Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Natha… read more
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- audiobook
13. The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories
By: Ilan Pappé
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Following his critically acclaimed investigation of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in the 1940s,… read more
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14. Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
By: Alisa Roth
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons America has made … read more
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15. Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic
By: Richard A. McKay
4.08
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Now an award-winning documentary feature film The search for a “patient zero”—popularly understood… read more
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- sociology
- queer
16. Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases
By: Paul A. Offit
4.29
Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition
His goal—to prevent every disease that commonly attacked children—was unattainable. But Maurice Hi… read more
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17. A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance
By: Stella Dadzie
4.34
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
The story of how enslaved women struggled for freedom in the West Indies Aside from Mary Prince,… read more
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18. Where I End
By: Sophie White
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
My mother. At night, my mother creaks. The house creaks along with her. Through our thin shar… read more
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19. Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America
By: David Serlin
3.93
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
After World War II, the United States underwent a massive cultural transformation that was vividly … read more
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20. Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease
By: Arleen Marcia Tuchman
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Who gets diabetes and why? An in‑depth examination of diabetes in the context of race, public healt… read more
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21. Pain: A Political History
By: Keith Wailoo
3.94
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Pain touches sensitive nerves in American liberalism, conservatism, and political life. In this his… read more
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