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Journal Article
How AIDS Invented Global Health
2013
Overview
The changes wrought by HIV have affected research, clinical practice, and policy. And the AIDS epidemic provided the foundation for a revolution that upended traditional approaches to “international health,” replacing them with innovative global approaches to disease.
Over the past half-century, historians have used episodes of epidemic disease to investigate scientific, social, and cultural change. Underlying this approach is the recognition that disease, and especially responses to epidemics, offers fundamental insights into scientific and medical practices, as well as social and cultural values. As historian Charles Rosenberg wrote, “disease necessarily reflects and lays bare every aspect of the culture in which it occurs.”
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Many historians would consider it premature to write the history of the HIV epidemic. After all, more than 34 million people are currently infected with HIV. Even today, with long-standing public health campaigns and . . .
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
