Volume 32, Number 21 & 22 · January 16, 1986
The Reality of AIDS
By Jonathan Lieberson
WORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY
A Strange Virus of Unknown Origin
by Dr. Jacques Liebowitch, translated from French by Richard Howard, with an introduction by Dr. Robert Gallo
Ballantine, 172 pp., $4.95 (paper)
Medical, Social, and Political Aspects of the AIDS Crisis: A Bibliography
compiled by D.W. McLeod, by Alan V. Miller
Canadian Gay Archives, Publication Number 10
Review of the Public Health Service's Response to AIDS: A Technical Memorandum, February 1985
Congress of the United States, Office of Technology Assessment
US Government Printing Office, 158 pp., $5.50
AIDS in the Mind of America
by Dennis Altman
Doubleday, 240 pp., $16.95
AIDS: The Emerging Ethical Dilemmas
Hastings Center Report
Vol. 15, No. 4 (Special Supplement) pp.
The Question of AIDS
by Richard Liebmann-Smith
The New York Academy of Sciences, 89 pp., $6.00
Understanding AIDS: A Comprehensive Guide
edited by Victor Gong, foreword by F. Mervyn Silverman
Rutgers University Press, 240 pp., $9.95 (paper)
AIDS has become one of the most discussed subjects in the US, yet some of its most important characteristics are not understood. From the beginning it was thought of as a homosexual's disease, created by 'promiscuity.' When a virus, HTLV-3, was found in the blood of most persons with AIDS, it was held that the virus was 'the cause of AIDS.' It was also held to be the cause of the milder form of the illness known as AIDS-related complex (ARC)—a group of symptoms including swollen lymph glands in several parts of the body, night sweating, substantial weight loss, and recurrent diarrhea. All along, AIDS has been thought of as a sexually transmitted or venereal disease that is generally fatal. All of these claims, which have contributed greatly to fear of the disease, are false or misleading.
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