Audiobook12 hours
Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic
Written by Richard A. McKay
Narrated by Paul Woodson
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
()
About this audiobook
In Patient Zero, Richard A. McKay presents a carefully documented and sensitively written account of the life of Gaetan Dugas, a gay man whose skin cancer diagnosis in 1980 took on very different meanings as the HIV/AIDS epidemic developed-and who received widespread posthumous infamy when he was incorrectly identified as patient zero of the North American outbreak. McKay shows how investigators from the US Centers for Disease Control inadvertently created the term amid their early research into the emerging health crisis; how an ambitious journalist dramatically amplified the idea in his determination to reframe national debates about AIDS; and how many individuals grappled with the notion of patient zero-adopting, challenging, and redirecting its powerful meanings-as they tried to make sense of and respond to the first fifteen years of an unfolding epidemic. With important insights for our interconnected age, Patient Zero untangles the complex process by which individuals and groups create meaning and allocate blame when faced with new disease threats. What McKay gives us here is myth-smashing revisionist history at its best.
Related to Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic
Related audiobooks
American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Viruses, Plagues, and History: Past, Present, and Future Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Epidemic: Ebola and the Global Scramble to Prevent the Next Killer Outbreak Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Coronavirus Pandemic: The History of the COVID-19 Disease and Its Outbreak across the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Epidemics: Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dangerous Medicine: The Story Behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism: My Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and Autism Dad Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Virus: Vaccinations, the CDC, and the Hijacking of America's Response to the Pandemic Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Between Hope and Fear: A History of Vaccines and Human Immunity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Anti-vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bad Advice: Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped Our History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers: Rabies, Medicine, and Society in an American Metropolis, 1840–1920 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBoy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGenetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInfectious: Pathogens and How We Fight Them Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPlagues and Their Aftermath: How Societies Recover from Pandemics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Modern History For You
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/577 Days of February: Living and Dying in Ukraine, Told by the Nation’s Own Journalists Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rape of Nanking: The History and Legacy of the Notorious Massacre during the Second Sino-Japanese War Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed or Fail Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Murders of Moisés Ville: The Rise and Fall of the Jerusalem of South America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fascism: A Warning Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter: From the Battle for Moscow to Hitler's Bunker Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ghost Map Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Short Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Project MK-Ultra: The History of the CIA’s Controversial Human Experimentation Program Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In Plain Sight Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic
Rating: 4.318181818181818 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
22 ratings0 reviews