Constructing the subject: historical origins of psychological research.

TLDR: Clark is bringing together a body of historical and current writing about AIDS and epidemic disease, much of which is familiar, but his focus in the present is almost entirely on the United States and the impact of AIDS in that particular culture.

Abstract: effective prevention campaigns. This is the \"lesson of history\" used to argue for a liberal policy approach. The book is not a work of original scholarship. Clark is bringing together a body of historical and current writing about AIDS and epidemic disease, much of which is familiar. Despite his historical analysis of widely different cultures, his focus in the present is almost entirely on the United States and the impact of AIDS in that particular culture. Even within the U.S., he takes no account of more recent disease formulations, such as the \"chronic disease\" model, which has been widely discussed. AIDS, whether rightly or wrongly, is no longer seen within the epidemic model; it would have been helpful to have some consideration of those more recent changes. Outside the U.S., too, AIDS has been a much less powerful force for the reform of health care systems. In the U.K., for example, AIDS funding has been the victim of recent health service changes rather than a driving force for change. The book is therefore of limited relevance to a non-American audience, although it is well produced and illustrated by thirteen full colour plates, ranging from a 1350 representation of Saint Sebastian to the AIDS quilt in the 1990s.