To Make the Wounded Whole

In the face of the racism that has shaped contemporary life and death chances in this Covid era, the history of African American responses to the Hiv/Aids (human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome) epidemic is particularly crucial both for its “pastness” and its current import. While histories abound on the organizing around Hiv/Aids, Dan Royles has written the first full-scale study of the responses within various American Black communities. Would that these narratives had been shared more widely last year, because they might have served as lifesavers, or at least signposts, on the way to health equity. Royles takes a sophisticated and intersectional approach to the experiences of those he writes about who battled against racism, homophobia, sexism, self-doubt, and the refusal of many to also acknowledge heterosexual transmission of the virus outside those who used intravenous drugs. Aware of the many differing institutions within

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• Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influence 2023

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