Pandemics
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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Between Certain Death and a Possible FutureQueer 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 … | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | 368 | 2021 | View |
NEW! Country of PoxesThree 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 … | Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay | 208 | 2022 | View |
From Between Certain Death and a Possible FutureAn Introduction |
The editor of the collection frames introduces the volume by exploring his youthful feelings about his sexuality, and the onset of the AIDS epidemic. | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add |
From NEW! ForewordFrom: Country of Poxes |
Forward from Dr. Darlene Kitty. | Darlene Kitty | 3 | 2022 | $0.30 Add |
From NEW! Pandemics PastHow Infections Have Defined Humanity From: Country of Poxes |
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, … | Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay | 16 | 2022 | $1.60 Add |
From What Survival Means |
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. | Keiko Lane | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
From Surviving My Cousin |
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 … | Bryan M. Holdman | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
From NEW! SyphilisFrom: Country of Poxes |
Chapter 2 focuses on syphilis. Topics discussed include the debate around syphilis’ origins, the politics of colonialism, the “Columbian exchange”, the stages of syphilis, … | Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay | 56 | 2022 | $5.60 Add |
From Class of ’88 |
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 … | Roberto Gonzalez | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add |
From NEW! SmallpoxFrom: Country of Poxes |
Chapter 3 examines the history of smallpox. Discussing topics includingsmallpox origins, early accounts of smallpox outbreaks across North America, the emergence of new mutations, … | Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay | 66 | 2022 | $6.60 Add |
From Hockey Night in Canada |
The author recalls the death of a co-worker from AIDS, how a group of gay friends cared for one of their own who was dying of AIDS while his family watched Hockey Night in Canada, and his own … | Berend McKenzie | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
From NEW! TuberculosisFrom: Country of Poxes |
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 … | Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay | 61 | 2022 | $6.10 Add |
From NEW! Fevers FutureHow We Respond to Infections to Come From: Country of Poxes |
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 … | Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay | 17 | 2022 | $1.70 Add |
From Open 24 Hours |
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. | Nels P. Highberg | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
From Relationship to Fear |
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. | EJ Colen | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
From From the InsideOne Prisoner's Perspective |
This chapter examines the author’s experiences with AIDS and HIV as an inmate in the Florida Department of Corrections. | Timothy Jones | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add |