{"product_id":"before-aids-9780812250138","title":"Before AIDS","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe AIDS crisis of the 1980s looms large in recent histories of sexuality, medicine, and politics, and justly so—an unknown virus without a cure ravages an already persecuted minority, medical professionals are unprepared and sometimes unwilling to care for the sick, and a national health bureaucracy is slow to invest resources in finding a cure. Yet this widely accepted narrative, while accurate, creates the impression that the gay community lacked any capacity to address AIDS. In fact, as Katie Batza demonstrates in this path-breaking book, there was already a well-developed network of gay-health clinics in American cities when the epidemic struck, and these clinics served as the first responders to the disease. \u003ci\u003eBefore AIDS\u003c\/i\u003e explores this heretofore unrecognized story, chronicling the development of a national gay health network by highlighting the origins of longstanding gay health institutions in Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles, placing them in a larger political co\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] highly compelling, important book . . . Katie Batza's \u003ci\u003eBefore AIDS\u003c\/i\u003e dramatically expands our portrait of the gay 1970s and of the relationships between gay liberation, the US state, and the politics of health. Through three case studies and a tightly argued, absorbingly written analysis, Batza shows that health activism was central to gay politics well before the beginning of the AIDS epidemic.\" * \u003ci\u003eJournal of the History of Sexuality\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBefore AIDS\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to chart the development of a national gay health network in the 1970s. Katie Batza's insightful and compelling analysis makes valuable contributions to the history of sexuality, LGBTQ studies, the history of medicine, and American political history.\" * Tamar Carroll, Rochester Institute of Technology *\u003cbr\u003e\"Well-conceived, deftly argued, and based on an impressive range of primary materials, oral interviews, and a good command of the secondary literature, \u003ci\u003eBefore AIDS\u003c\/i\u003e brings fresh light and perspective to the wider field of the history of sexuality in the United States.\" * Jonathan Bell, University College London *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Fighting Epidemics and Ignorance\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Reimagining Gay Liberation\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Beyond Gay Liberation\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Gay Health Harnesses the State\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Redefining Gay Health\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Gay Health Network Meets AIDS\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. AIDS and the State Enmeshed\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405737107799,"sku":"9780812250138","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812250138.jpg?v=1730493436","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/before-aids-9780812250138","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}