First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Graduate School, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York

Part I Nature, History, and Responses to Dreaded Diseases; Chapter 1 Crisis and Contagion; Chapter 2 Shame and Stigma; Chapter 3 Lessons Unlearned: the Dreaded Diseases in History; Part II AIDS: The Archetype of the Dreaded Diseases; Chapter 4 The Nature and Origin of AIDS; Chapter 5 Promises and Problems: The Medical Encounter with AIDS; Chapter 6 Policies, Politics, and Public Health; Chapter 7 Aids as a Social Disease; Chapter 8 Creating a Humane Future;