HIV Pioneers: Lives Lost, Careers Changed, and Survival (Paperback)

Foreword, by James W. Curran
Introduction
Patients, Physicians, and Hospitals
The Healer, Dr. Beny Primm: Uncommon Man for Uncommon Times
"That AZT Kills Patients": Learning from Lamar?A 25-Year-Long Patient-Doctor Relationship
Unmoored
Yet Another Stigma: HIV Strikes People with Severe Mental Illness
AIDS Case Management: A Community Response
Women and Pioneering Women
Cherchez la Femme: Yes, the French Woman Did It. She Discovered the AIDS Virus.
The Needlestick Accident That Launched Healthcare Worker Safety: A Nurse's HIV Journey
HIV Takes Center Stage
"Don't Die of Ignorance": A Scramble for Knowledge
Methadone Treatment, Jessie Helms, and Reaching Women Who Use Drugs
South Africa's Response to AIDS and Preventing HIV in Young Women
Survivors
Finding the Black Church in the Fight to End AIDS: My Story
Finding My Calling in Hell: My Journey Through the Early Years of AIDS
What Did You Learn, Dorothy?
Once a Garden, Now a Wildflower
Personal Turning Points
Baltimore's HERO
But You're Not Part of Our Community
The Accidental Ethnographer
People Who Use Drugs
GRID: Gay-Related Immune Deficiency
Stories and Lessons Learned Surrounding People Who Inject Drugs: The Early Days of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Encounter With the Dark Side
Junkiebonden and Users' Groups: Learning About the Collective Organization of People Who Use Drugs
Social and Behavioral Science
We're From the Government and We're Here to Help You
First AIDS Grant, First Interviews with AIDS Patients, First Syringe Exchange Politics, First Syringe Research
The Development, Testing, and Implementation of an Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model for the Prediction and Promotion of HIV/AIDS Preventive Behavior
Out of Suffering: New Directions in AIDS Behavioral Prevention Research From a Personal Perspective
From the Many One: A Collaborative Approach
Historical Perspectives
The Beginning of Science in the HIV Epidemic: Eureka Moments
"Slim Disease": A New Health Scare in Uganda
Afterword
Contributors
Index
Index