Introduction

What is Sociological About Aids?

AIDS in Historical Perspective: Four Lessons from the History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Allan M. Brandt

Understanding AIDS: Historical Interpretations and the Limits of Biomedical Individualism

Elizabeth Fee

Nancy Krieger

Social Epidemiology and Demography

HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Social Impact of HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries

Renee Danziger

Prevalence of HIV Infection in the United States, 1984 to 1992

John M. Karon

Phillip S. Rosenberg

Geraldine McQuillan

Meena Khare

Marta Gwinn

Lyle R. Petersen

Identity and Behavior

Risk Perception, Risk Taking and Risk Management Among Intravenous Drug Users: Implications for AIDS Prevention

Margaret M. Connors

Living with HIV Infection: Adaptive Tasks of Seropositive Gay Men

Karolynn Siegel

Beatrice J. Krauss

The Life Course

Disclosure of Diagnosis to Children with Human Immunodeficiency Virus or Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

Michael Lipson

AIDS Risk Behaviors Among Late Middle-aged and Elderly Americans

Ron Stall

Joe Catania

Caregiving

Sustaining Informal Caregivers for Persons with AIDS

Linda A. Wardlaw

The Physical Costs of AIDS Caregiving

Allen J. LeBlanc

Andrew S. London

Carol S. Aneshensel

The Bereavement Process: Loss, Grief, Recovery

Joseph T. Mullan

Leonard I. Pearlin

Marilyn M. Skaff

Knowledge, Attitudes, and Collective Behavior

Examining HIV-Related Knowledge Among Adults in the U.S.

Allen J. LeBlanc

Silence, Death, and the Invisible Enemy: AIDS Activism and Social Movement ``Newness''

Josh Gamson

Social Stratification

Is AIDS a Disease of Poverty?

P. Gillies

K. Tolley

J. Wolstenholme

The Underrecognition of HIV Infection in Women in an Inner-City Emergency Room

Ellie E. Schoenbaum

Mayris P. Webber

AIDS Surveillance among American Indians and Alaska Natives

Russ Metler

George A. Conway

Jeanette Stehr-Green

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, 1932 to 1972: Implications for HIV Education and AIDS Risk Education Programs in the Black Community

Stephen B. Thomas

Sandra Crouse Quinn

Organizations and Services

Access to Medical Care and Health-Related Quality of Life for Low-Income Persons with Symptomatic Human Immunodeficiency Virus

William E. Cunningham

Ron D. Hays

Kevin W. Williams

Keith C. Beck

Wilfrid J. Dixon

Martin F. Shapiro

Adoption of HIV-Related Services Among Urban US Hospitals 1988 and 1991

Allen J. LeBlanc

Robert E. Hurley

Differences in Access to Zidovudine (AZT) among Symptomatic HIV-Infected Persons

Michael D. Stein

John Piette

Vincent Mor

Tom J. Wachtel

John Fleishman

Kenneth H. Mayer

Charles C.J. Carpenter

Health Professions and Occupations

The Evolution of a Public Health Policy: Health Care Providers and the Transmission of HIV

Sally Guttmacher

Hospital Nurses' Occupational Exposure to Blood: Prospective, Retrospective, and Institutional Reports

Linda H. Aiken

Douglas M. Sloane

Jennifer L. Klocinski

Worksite AIDS Education: A Case Study of the New York City Police

Judith K. Barr

Leon J. Warshaw

Economics

Health Insurance Coverage among Persons with AIDS: Results from a Multistate Surveillance Project

Theresa Diaz

Susan Y. Chu

Lisa Conti

Bernard L. Nahlen

Bruce Whyte

Eve Mokotoff

Anne Shields

Patricia J. Checko

Mary Herr

Quaiser Mukhtar

Cornelis A. Rietmeijer

Anna Levy

Pat Hermann

James W. Buehler

The Marketplace of HIV/AID$

Jon Cohen

Protease Inhibitors: A Tale of Two Companies

Jon Cohen

Public Policy

Sounding Board: Targeted HIV-Prevention Programs

Don C. Des Jarlais

Nancy S. Padian

Warren Winkelstein, Jr.

Toward a New Health Strategy to Control the HIV/AIDS Pandemic

Jonathan Mann

Daniel Tarantola

Jeff O'Malley

Index