Works Cited Primary Sources Books Chambers, Ross.

Facing It: AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1998. Print. This book demonstrates how the epidemic relates to multiple problems around us and how everything is linked together. This also demonstrates what literary critiscism can do to an epidemic. Jonsen, Albert R., and Jeff Stryker. The Social Impact of AIDS in the United States. Washington: National Academy, 1993. Print. This book shows how the AIDS epidemic has changed the United States socially. Monette, Paul. Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. Print. Paul Monette writes about what he went through when he learned that friends and family around him were getting diagnosed for AIDS. He tells us emotions, reactions, how others were acting and behaving during this time. Interview Housman, Kate. Telephone interview. 7 Oct. 2012. In this interview, Mrs. Housman explains what she saw and experienced in a mental hospital during the duration of this epidemic. It shows how people were reacting and the precautions they were or were not taking. Newspaper Altman, Lawrence K. "The Doctor's World; Medicinie May Learn from the Tragedy of AIDS." The New York Times 10 May 1983: n. pag. Web. 3 Oct. 2012. <http://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/10/science/the-doctor-s-world-medicine-may-learnfrom-the-tragedy-of-aids.html?ref=aids>. This article explains how medicine has learned from the tragedy of AIDS. This shows how AIDS helped expand and change the use and discovery of medicine. Altman, Lawrence K. "Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals." The New York Times 3 July 1981: n. pag. Web. 3 Oct. 2012. <http://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/us/rare-cancer-seen-in41-homosexuals.html>. This is one of the first articles to be published during the crisis. This shows how many people werent in good understanding of the epidemic and how it was mostly seen in homosexuals; which is why people believed it was a homosexual disease. Photographs Boenzi, Neal. "Advocacy." The New York Times. New York Times, 1985. Web. 4 Jan. 2013. <http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/05/31/science/jpAIDS.html>. Demonstrated what homosexuals had to do during the times of AIDS. Shows how homosexuals were outcasted and the conditions during the beginning of AIDS. Reininger, Alon. Ken Meeks. The New York Times. N.p., 30 May 2011. Web. 9 Jan. 2013. <http://www.contactpressimages.com/photographers/reininger/reininger_tears.html>. Shows what someone looked like with Kaposi's sarcoma during the time of AIDS "CDC Timeline." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Ed. CDC. CDC, n.d. Web. 5 Jan. 2013. <http://www.cdc.gov/about/history/timeline.htm>.

This provided information on the history of diseases. It helped with prior conditions of health before AIDS was around. Television/Radio Programs "Condoms debut on TV and in convenience stores." The National. Hosted by Knowlton Nash. 18 Feb. 1987. CBC Digital Archives. Web. 7 Jan. 2013. Shows an effect AIDS had to promoting safer health care Curran, James. Interview by Jay Ingram. Quirks & Quarks. 5 Dec. 1981. CBC Digital Archives. Web. 12 Jan. 2013. <http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/health/public-health/theearly-years-of-the-aids-crisis/outbreak-of-rare-cancer-baffles-doctors.html>. One of the first radio interviews about the AIDS epidemic. Talked about the shock of the deaths already and how it has only affected young, gay men. Video Clips Government eases concerns over AIDS (1983). YouTube. N.p., 1983. Web. 10 Jan. 2013. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EImtxwbZM_I&list=PLF4EAA408BC20297F>. This video gives different news clippings from 1983 on what news stations were reporting on AIDS. Demonstrates how little the american population knew about AIDS. NBC's Earliest Report on AIDS 1982. YouTube. N.p., 17 June 1982. Web. 10 Jan. 2013. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LKJ5ZzzL0w>. One of the first news reports NBC did on AIDS in 1982

Secondary Sources Books Mitra, Jaganmay. HIV Speaks: An Autobiography of AIDS Virus. New Delhi: New Age International, 1995. Print. In this text, the author has tried to explain the main points of immunodeficiency diseases. The book talks about the origin of where AIDS began. Reeders, Jacques W. A. J, and Philip C. Goodman. Radiology of AIDS. Berlin: Springer, 2001. Print. In this book, it gives facts and details how AIDS is contracted and other facts about AIDS. For example, how people contract it, safety precautions to be taken, how AIDS grew to be such big epidemic it is today. Interview Singer, Shelby. Interview by Bonnie Goldman. 18 June 2008. This interview covers how one individual, Shelby Singer, first heard of AIDS, how she reacted, how she contracted AIDS, how she and her family reacted and how it changed her perspective on everything. Magazine Jefferson, David J. "How AIDS Changed America." Newsweek 14 May 2006: n. pag. The Daily Beast. Web. 3 Oct. 2012. <http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2006/05/14/howaids-changed-america.html>. This magazine article explains the difficulties that AIDS people had to go through when they were diagnosed. Also brings up if gay marriage would be such a controversy today. It explains how activism towards other diseases has changed since this epidemic.

Newspaper Altman, Lawrence K. "30 Years In, We Are Still Learning From AIDS." New York Times 30 May 2011: n. pag. Web. 6 Jan. 2013. <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/health/31aids.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0>. Gave a quick overview of AIDS history, helped fill in some gaps. Concluded with how people are still learning from this epidemic. Buchanan, Wyatt. "How AIDS Changed Us." San Francisco Chronicle 4 June 2006: n. pag. Web. 3 Oct. 2012. <http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/HOW-AIDS-CHANGED-US2533755.php>. This article explains how this new strange disease was killing gay men and threatening to erase gay political progress. It concludes that after 1996 new medicines showed real promise and number of deaths dropped right away. Zuger, Abigail. "What Did We Learn From AIDS?" The New York Times 11 Nov. 2003: n. pag. Web. 17 Oct. 2012. <http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/science/what-did-we-learnfrom-aids.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm>. This article talks about how AIDS changed basic truths about politics, economics, science and psychology of health and disease. It also talks about how scientists and doctors have been taking bigger precautions in treating patients. Websites Alexander, Brian. "How AIDS changed sex in America. Or did it?" Msnbc. NBCNews, 4 June 2006. Web. 17 Oct. 2012. <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13071769/ns/healthaids/t/how-aids-changed-sex-america-or-did-it/#.UH9Ub2_LRcE>. This article explains how AIDS has changed the safety that Americans take now before having sex. It shows how AIDS had a short effect on adults in America; that after a few years of the AIDS scare they went back to their old ways. Kohler, Will. "HIV/AIDS And The Genocidal Legacy Of Ronald Reagan." Back2Stonewall. N.p., 22 June 2012. Web. 7 Jan. 2013. <http://www.back2stonewall.com/2012/06/june-51981-june-5-2011-thirty-years-of.html>. Provided me with a quote of Ronald Reagans opinion during the time of the outbreak. Demonstrates how people thought during this time of confusion. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, ed. "HIV/AIDS Basics." AIDS.gov. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2012. Web. 5 Jan. 2013. <http://aids.gov/hivaids-basics/index.html>. This website provided statistics and other valuable information.