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 Disease

Introduction

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 AIDS

Introduction

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 Session

Introduction

Images of AIDS: The Poster Record
William H. Helfand


Workshop 3: The Response of Governments and Society to AIDS

Introduction

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 Disease

Introduction

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