TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Speakers and Participants
Workshop 1: Before AIDS. An Overview of Previous US Epidemics to Clarify the Administrative, Scientific, and Social Responses to Mass DiseaseIntroduction
Epidemics Before AIDS: A New Research Program
Guenter B. Risse
Popular and Public Health Responses to Tuberculosis in America after 1870
David F. Musto
New York City Epidemics and History for the Public
Bert Hansen
Commentary
Caroline Hannaway
Summary of Small Group Discussions
Workshop 2: Clinical and Biomedical Research Responses to AIDSIntroduction
The Biomedical Response to AIDS in Historical Perspective
Victoria A. Harden
Historical Factors in Federal AIDS Prevention Efforts Sonsored by the US Centers of Disease Control
Theodore Hammet and Michael Gross
Basic Research Related to AIDS
Alan N. Schechter
Social and Biological Origins of the AIDS Pandemic
Bernardino Fantini
Commentary
Jack Pressman
Summary of Small Group Discussions
Evening SessionIntroduction
Images of AIDS: The Poster Record
William H. Helfand
Workshop 3: The Response of Governments and Society to AIDSIntroduction
The Contemporary Historiography of AIDS
Daniel M. Fox and Elizabeth Fee
The Social History of the Impact of AIDS in the United Kingdom
Virginia Berridge
Community-Based Response to AIDS
Paul Kawata
Commentary
Suzanne White
Summary of Small group Discussions
Workshop 4:Documenting AIDS History: Preserving the Records of the Scientific, Institutional and Popular Response to a New DiseaseIntroduction
Documentation in the Federal Government for the History of AIDS
Peter B. Hirtle
The Artifactual Legacy of AIDS
Ramunas Kondratas
Documenting AIDS: The Role of University and Other Agencies
Nancy W. Zinn
Commentary
John Parascandola
Summary of General Discussion
Closing Remarks