![]() ![]() ''Objective'' medicine and science may be as vulnerable to these pressures as, say, Congressmen, evangelists or budget directors.Īnd so acquired immune deficiency syndrome is not only an epidemic it is a mirror, revealing us to ourselves. They become social forces in their own right, carving deep new fissures in the political and cultural landscape, thrusting up buried fears and hatreds. But great and lethal epidemics are never merely biological events, and never elicit merely biological or scientific responses. There is, I believe, much more and much worse to come. ![]() WE are now in the seventh year of the AIDS pandemic, the worldwide epidemic nightmarishly linking sex and death and drugs and blood. ![]() AND THE BAND PLAYED ON Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic. ![]()
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