Pandemics

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Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis

Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis offers crucial stories from this missing generation in AIDS literature and cultural politics. This … 368 View
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Country of Poxes

Three Germs and the Taking of Territory

Country of Poxes is the story of land theft in North America through three diseases: syphilis, smallpox and tuberculosis. These infectious diseases reveal that medical care, widely considered a … 208 View
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Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

An Introduction

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The editor of the collection frames introduces the volume by exploring his youthful feelings about his sexuality, and the onset of the AIDS epidemic. 6 $0.60 Add
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Foreword

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Forward from Dr. Darlene Kitty. 3 $0.30 Add
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Pandemics Past

How Infections Have Defined Humanity

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Chapter 1 explores the history of infectious diseases in Canada and human coexistence with infection. Topics discussed include malaria, gene mutations, cystic fibrosis, cholera, antibiotics, … 16 $1.60 Add
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What Survival Means

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

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In this chapter, the author reflects on their time in Los Angeles in the 1990s, and her friendship with someone who was dying of AIDS. 12 $1.20 Add
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Surviving My Cousin

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

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In this essay, the author writes about his childhood relationship with his close cousin Dee, who was also gay, and Dee’s death of AIDS-related penumonia in 1998. He posits that Dee’s … 15 $1.50 Add
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Syphilis

From: Country of Poxes

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Chapter 2 focuses on syphilis. Topics discussed include the debate around syphilis’ origins, the politics of colonialism,  the “Columbian exchange”, the stages of syphilis, … 56 $5.60 Add
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Class of ’88

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

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This chapter explores the author’s feelings about AIDS as a young man; he believed that if he did not admit he was gay, he would not contract the disease. He also believed that, since the … 9 $0.90 Add
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Smallpox

From: Country of Poxes

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Chapter 3 examines the history of smallpox. Discussing topics includingsmallpox origins, early accounts of smallpox outbreaks across North America, the emergence of new mutations, … 66 $6.60 Add
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Tuberculosis

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Chapter 4 focuses on tuberculosis. Discussing topics including the present persistence of tuberculosis into the twenty first century across the globe including in Canada, the long history of … 61 $6.10 Add
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Fevers Future

How We Respond to Infections to Come

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Chapter 5 reflects on how prepared Canada is to respond to the future infectious diseases outbreaks to come. Discussing topics including the COVID-19 pandemic, contemporary medicine’s ties … 17 $1.70 Add
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Open 24 Hours

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

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In this essay, the author describes the importance of adult bookstores in his sexual awakening, and his relationship with, and marriage to, an HIV positive man. 8 $0.80 Add
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Relationship to Fear

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

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This chapter details the author’s sex education at school, her being tested with a friend for HIV, and how fear of AIDS influenced her romantic life as a lesbian. 7 $0.70 Add
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From the Inside

One Prisoner's Perspective

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

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This chapter examines the author’s experiences with AIDS and HIV as an inmate in the Florida Department of Corrections. 9 $0.90 Add