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Condition: Near Fine Almost imperceptible damage to cover and to bottom of one board - would be acceptable as new book. Content: "Weaving together the strands of ecology theory, epidemiology and sexual politics [Rotello] shows how the AIDS epidemic, like other epidemics from influenza and bubonic plague to today's rapidly emerging viruses result as much from human behaviors as from specific microbes. He argues convincingly that AIDS was probably an old and rare disease syndrome in humans that erupted into an epidemic only when cultural changes - including the gay male sexual revolution of the seventies - created ideal conditions for its evolution and spread. "For the first time ever, Rotello describes in detail the surprising scientific consensus about why, precisely, AIDS hit gay men so hard. Rebutting both the left's position that AIDS was merely an accident and simplistic right-wing theories that blame promiscuity alone, Rotello presents the compelling but troubling verdict embraced by epidemiologists: AIDS was spread by a fusion of factors built right into the fabric of urban gay life after Stonewall." (from the jacket) Background / Biography: "Gabriel Rotello was the founding editor of Outweek Magazine and has been a columnist for New York Newsday. Winner of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Outstanding Journalist of the Year award for 1995, Rotello has written for Out, the New York Times, The Nation, the Village Voice, The Advocate and other publications. He lives in New York City." (from the cover) Reviews: Clicking on advertiser links on this site may allow these companies to gather and use information about your visit to this and other websites to provide you with advertisements about goods and services presumed to be of interest to you. |
Quote from this book " The rapid spread of HIV infection in the gay male community, then, was hardly surprising. In a culture so prone to amplifying sexually transmitted infections, including many that were previously rare or even unknown, it was only natural that anything entering this disease pool would undergo rapid and efficient transmission. What makes HIV different from these other infections is not anything about how or why it spread, but simply its generally fatal outcome. In all other ways it was just another bug along for the ride." Chapter 3: "The Synergy of Plagues" p72 Secondhand booksellers |
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