"Only your calamity": The beginnings of activism by and for people with AIDS

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 103, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1788-1798

  Wright, Joe ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; MALE; PATIENT ADVOCACY; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; UNITED STATES;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT ADVOCACY; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884126069     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301381     Document Type: Article

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