Secret Epidemic The Story of AIDS and Black America

Name: Secret Epidemic The Story of AIDS and Black America
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ISBN: 9780385722346

ISBN-10: 0385722346

ISBN-13: 9780385722346

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Authors: Jacob Levenson

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Half the people in the United States who are diagnosed with HIV are now African American. Through the eyes of those on the front lines of the crisis, journalist Jacob Levenson tells a story of race and public health that spans fifty years and reveals how AIDS has become one of the leading killers of young black men and women. Medical researcher Mindy Fullilove investigates the epidemic’s links to crack cocaine, the Bronx fires, and national health policy. Desiree Rushing must reconcile her crack addiction and HIV infection with the fate of her city, family, and the black church. David deShazo, a white AIDS worker in Alabama, fights to prevent the American South from becoming the epidemic’s…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/8/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.23" wide x 7.95" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Jacob Levenson has written about AIDS forVibe,The Oxford American, andMother Jones, and he received a grant from the Open Society Institute to work on this book. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley, and he received a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. He lives in Brooklyn.



Prologue: Tornado Road



Smoke



Allied



The Heir



Fire



Invisible



Fractured



Surfacing



Esther and the King



The Guardians



The Long Dream


Epilogue


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index