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In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as “one of the most liberating books of its time”. A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment.

An eminent scientist and pioneer in the discovery of retroviruses challenges the widely accepted belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS. Duesberg argues that HIV is merely a harmless passenger virus that does not cause AIDS. Sure to spark intense debate, this provocative book offers an original and incisive critique of the rise and fall of HIV.

On June 5, 1981, the scientific community received a wake-up call from the CDC in the form of a terrible new illness that the world would soon know as AIDS. Three decades later, remarkable progress has been made, but much more remains to be understood and to be done. In this audiobook, we explore where the disease came from, how it works, how it spreads, the search for a vaccine, and cultural and sociological factors.

Michael Lynch, the central figure of this book, was a long-time gay activist and a dynamic force in organizing an early response to the AIDS epidemic. Lynch’s prescient articles in The Body Politic spoke to the gay communities of Toronto, New York, and San Francisco. His organizing efforts meant change and hope.

Four decades after And the Band Played On created an image of the AIDS epidemic that has survived in the public consciousness to this very day, mathematician Rebecca Culshaw is sounding the alarm that everything that iconic book told us about AIDS is demonstrably wrong. And that mistaken understanding of AIDS and its cause has the potential to affect all of us, not just certain so-called risk groups. Rebecca Culshaw describes her slow uncovering of these reasons over her years researching HIV for her work constructing mathematical models of its interaction with the immune system.

Dispatches from the AIDS Pandemic is a unique firsthand account from three public health leaders of CDC's early response to AIDS. Drawing in part on interviews from the CDC's AIDS oral history project, the authors trace the evolution of AIDS from newly recognized disease to pandemic.

In Patient Zero, Richard A. McKay presents a carefully documented and sensitively written account of the life of Gaetan Dugas, a gay man whose skin cancer diagnosis in 1980 took on very different meanings as the HIV/AIDS epidemic developed - and who received widespread posthumous infamy when he was incorrectly identified as patient zero of the North American outbreak.

La storia del virus HIV e dell'epidemia di AIDS scoppio all'inizio degli anni Ottanta come un incubo, una spirale di paura e morte che sconvolse il mondo, convertendosi nella più grande epidemia dell'era moderna. Lo sviluppo di farmaci e terapie sempre più efficaci, accompagnati da campagne massicce di prevenzione hanno aiutato, negli ultimi anni, a mantenere relativamente sotto controllo la diffusione dell'epidemia e ad aumentare la durata e la qualità di vita delle persone che convivono con l'HIV/AIDS.

Pludselig i begyndelsen af 1980'erne dukkede en ny sygdom op, som ingen vidste, hvad var, men som folk døde af, flest homoseksuelle mænd. Siden bredte den sig til hele samfundet og fik navnet aids. Med udgangspunkt i sit eget liv og sine egne erfaringer skriver Tomas Lagermand Lundme om en tid, hvor han selv var på vej ind i kærligheden og seksualiteten, men hvor sidstnævnte bogstavelig talt blev dødsensfarlig og traumatiserede så mange.