Abstract/Details

The Sounds of Furious Living: Everyday Unorthodoxies in an Era of AIDS

Kelly, Matthew.   Columbia University ProQuest Dissertations Publishing,  2017. 10269042.

Abstract (summary)

This dissertation seeks to expand our understanding of AIDS activism by adding to the historical register the stories of individuals who engaged in everyday acts of protest through their endorsement of unorthodox etiological and therapeutic responses to the disease. By focusing on the histories of two poorly understood New York City based organizations—the People with AIDS Coalition (PWAC) and Health Education AIDS Liaison (HEAL)—it both supplements and challenges scholarship which has to date focused predominately on the public protests organized by the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). Resisting a common scholarly bias that masks and marginalizes unorthodox, everyday acts of resistance, I map the larger sociocultural currents that gave birth to and sustained their expression amongst individuals living with, responding to, and dying from AIDS in New York City through the 1980s and 1990s. In so doing, I strive to achieve a true social history of AIDS better able to capture diverse expressions of patient resistance than those organized about professional norms and institutional taxonomies. It is my hope that its methodology and conclusions may not only deepen our understanding of the late 20th Century’s most studied epidemic disease, but indeed more broadly inform historical scholarship investigating patient engagement with other infectious and chronic diseases.

Indexing (details)


Subject
American history;
Public health
Classification
0337: American history
0573: Public health
Identifier / keyword
Social sciences; Health and environmental sciences; AIDS; Health activism; Historiography; History of AIDS; History of medicine; History of public health
Title
The Sounds of Furious Living: Everyday Unorthodoxies in an Era of AIDS
Author
Kelly, Matthew
Number of pages
364
Degree date
2017
School code
0054
Source
DAI-A 78/09(E), Dissertation Abstracts International
Place of publication
Ann Arbor
Country of publication
United States
ISBN
978-1-369-70419-8
Advisor
Bayer, Ronald
University/institution
Columbia University
Department
Sociomedical Sciences
University location
United States -- New York
Degree
Ph.D.
Source type
Dissertation or Thesis
Language
English
Document type
Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number
10269042
ProQuest document ID
1889169182
Copyright
Database copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.
Document URL
https://www.proquest.com/docview/1889169182