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Reviews and Notes: HIV Medicine: AIDS and the Public Debate: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

C Hannaway, VA Harden, and J Parascandola; eds. 350 pages. Washington, DC: IOS Pr; 1996. $70.00. ISBN 90-5199-190-8. Order phone 703-323-5554. Has any medical event of the past two centuries touched so many persons in so many communitiessocial, political, artistic, industrial, publishing, scientificas the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)? The 15 essays in this collection impressively describe the complex effects elicited in many, many circles. Accounts by James Curran and C. Everett Koop of the early impressions of the AIDS problem are important pictures of the quandaries faced during the first few years of the outbreak. Richard Goldstein's short but vivid essay pictures responses to AIDS in the worlds of music, dance, and film and the complications those responses elicited as a result of homophobia. Ruth Kulstad tells how the slowly but steadily burgeoning literature of AIDS was seen in the editorial operations of Science. Other papers assess other social and political consequences of AIDS, both in the United States and abroad. This collection is a valuable, highly readable (though not exhaustive) account of the big picture for all who have lived through this awesome epidemic but have seen it up close only in our immediate circles.