Coves all major aspects of the first 15 years of the AIDS epidemic. Provides extensive coverage of major topics in 8 areas; basic science and epidemiology, transmission & prevention, pathology & treatment, impacted populations, policy & laws, politics and activism, culture and society and the global epidemic.

AIDS epidemic: an overview --Basic science and epidemiology : -- Challenging the mainstream consensus: AIDS dissidents / Ian Young -- Transmission and prevention : -- The intersection of host and virus: risk factors for HIV infection / Tim Horn and Andres Sciolla -- Pathology and treatment : -- Fighting for our lives: AIDS treatment activism / Jeff Getty -- Impacted populations : -- Life in the maelstrom: living and working amid the AIDS epidemic / Michael Shernoff -- Government and activism : -- The high price of homophobia: HIV prevention education / Joyce Hunter -- Policy and law : -- Double discriminiation: women with HIV/AIDS / Mabel Bianco -- Culture and society : -- The plague of our time: societal responses to AIDS / Mervyn Silverman -- The global epidemic : -- Parallel epidemics: AIDS in the developed and developing worlds / Ann Marie Kimball.