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“Is this the AIDS class?” a student nervously asked as I walked into the room. These second-semester freshmen had no choice but to register for a writing and literature class and I did not want to advertise ahead of time that the subject of this course was AIDS. My selection of the books for the class, however, was more revealing than I intended. On the university bookshelves, And the Band Played On and Inventing the AIDS Virus lay in waiting as required reading for them.
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Bright, G.M. (2012). Reflections (1995–2000). In: Plague-Making and the AIDS Epidemic: A Story of Discrimination. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137011220_9
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