North Carolina & the problem of AIDS (Record no. 142319)
| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 03017nam a2200385 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 362.196/9792009756 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Inrig, Stephen. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | North Carolina & the problem of AIDS |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Chapel Hill : |
| Name of publisher | University of North Carolina Press, |
| Year of publication | c2011. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xiii, 208 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "Thirty years after AIDS was first recognized, the American South constitutes the epicenter of the United States' epidemic. Southern states claim the highest rates of new infections, the most AIDS-related deaths, and the largest number of adults and adolescents living with the virus. Moreover, the epidemic disproportionately affects African American communities across the region. Using the history of HIV in North Carolina as a case study, Stephen Inrig examines the rise of AIDS in the South in the period from the early spread and discovery of the disease through the late nineties. Drawing on epidemiological, archival, and oral history sources, Inrig probes the social determinants of health that put poor, rural, and minority communities at greater risk of HIV infection in the American South. He also examines the difficulties that health workers and AIDS organizations faced in reaching those communities, especially in the early years of the epidemic. His analysis provides an important counterweight to most accounts of the early history of the disease, which focus on urban areas and the spread of AIDS in the gay community. As one of the first historical studies of AIDS in a southern state, North Carolina and the Problem of AIDS provides powerful insight into the forces and factors that have made AIDS such an intractable health problem in the American South and the greater United States"-- |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | AIDS (Disease) |
| Topical Term | AIDS (Disease) |
| Topical Term | AIDS (Disease) |
| Topical Term | African American gays |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10521888 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
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