Epidemic City: The Politics of Public Health in New York

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333 abortion, 65–74, 72–73 Abrams, Robert, 50 Ackelsberg, Joel, 226 acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AiDS): African Americans and, 160–62; bathhouses as a battleground over, 130–34; emergence and initial investigations of, 108– 14, 116; evolving approaches to, 155–62; fear, an epidemic of, 123– 26; gay community, initial reactions within, 114–15; hiV, controversy over the test for, 126–30 (see also human immunodeficiency virus); homelessness and, 147; injection drug use and, 160–61; limits of public health in response to, 107–8, 120–23, 140–41; mass media, use of, 157–60; name and official definition provided for, 113; needle exchange as response to, 162–70, 195–96; “Patient Zero,” 111–12; posters about, 129, 158–59; public education, inadequacies regarding, 120–23; schoolyards as a battleground over, 134–40; surveillance data and confidentiality, controversy over, 170–78; temporal distribution of diagnosed cases, early hand-drawn graph of, 110; tuberculosis and, 189 Action on Smoking and health (ASh), 238 AcT uP (AiDS coalition to unleash Power), 173, 175–78, 193–94, 194, 195–96 ADAPT (Association for Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment), 165, 167, 169, 195–96 Addiction Services Agency, 57, 59, 62, 91 Addiction Treatment and Resource corporation, 59–60 Adler, Jack, 191 Advisory committee on obstetrics and Gynecology, 69 Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, 229–30 AiDS. See acquired immune deficiency syndrome Aid to Families with Dependent children (AFDc), 86 Altman, lawrence, 124 American Association of Physicians for human Rights, 128, 130 American civil liberties union (Aclu), 43 American Diabetes Association, 248 American Federation of State, county, and Municipal employees (AFScMe), District council 37, 29, 43, 97–98, 203 American Foundation for AiDS Research (AmFAR), 193, 195 American heart Association, 250 American law institute, 66 index Boldface numbers refer to photos and posters. 334 index American Medical Association (AMA), 5, 19 American Public health Association (APhA), 5, 18–19, 40, 52–53, 77, 230 Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights (ANR), 239 AmFAR. See American Foundation for AiDS Research anthrax scare, 226–29 antismoking campaign, 237–46 APhA. See American Public health Association Asnis, Deborah, 213–14, 222 Association of State and Territorial health officials, 128 Axelrod, David, 121, 131, 133, 156, 166–67 baden, Michael, 104 badillo, herman, 59 baker, Russell, 88–89 baker, S. Josephine, 9 banzhaf, John, 238 barnes, Mark, 208, 259 bassett, Mary, 236, 253–54, 256 bathhouses, AiDS and, 130–34 baumgartner, leona, 12, 21, 27–28, 91, 116, 254 beame, Abraham, 81–83, 83, 87, 90, 93–95, 97–98 bedford District health center, 21, 40, 80 bellamy, carol, 101, 127, 149, 164 bellin, lowell: cutting the budget, 84, 89–93, 100; “ghetto medicine” program , 38; hospital closings, actions regarding, 94–98; Medicaid auditing , 35–37, 247; nonsmoking sections in restaurants, effort to require, 238; photo of, 83; populist anger directed at, 179; protest flyer aimed at, 97; re-professionalizing the Department, appointment as commissioner and, 82; vital statistics reporting, resistance to state control of, 103; watchdog role assumed by, 41 berkowitz, Richard, 115, 123, 132 biggs, hermann, 9, 36, 181, 234, 255 bioterrorism. See terrorism birth control, 65–66 black leadership commission on AiDS, 195 blackout of 1977, 105 black Panthers, 50 block grants, 118 blood pressure screening, 80 bloomberg, Michael: antismoking campaign, actions regarding, 241– 44; chronic disease, actions regarding , 236–37; election and background of, 232–33; fast food reform, sitting out the fight over, 251; Frieden , appointment of, 231, 233; partnership with Frieden, successes from, 254–56, 261 blumenthal, Albert, 67 boarder babies, 155 board of education, New York city, 119, 134–36 board of health: abortion regulations promulgated by, 68–71; blood lead levels, standards for, 151; health code amendments to allow involuntary confinement, action on, 208–9; public health in lindsay’s consolidation proposal, concerns regarding status of, 27–28 bogard, Ron, 207 bogner, Marvin, 104 boufford, Jo ivey, 150, 174 brezenoff, Stanley, 122, 146, 174, 190– 91 brown, howard J., 30–33, 35, 46, 60, 67, 79, 121 brownell, Kelly, 249 brudney, Karen, 189–90, 202–3 buchanan, Patrick, 124–25 buckley, William F., Jr., 171 bucove, bernard, 33, 59–60, 79 burlage, Robb, 20 bushel, Arthur, 27, 29–30, 33 caiazza, Stephen, 127–28 callahan, Daniel, 179 callen, Michael, 115, 123, 132 carey, hugh, 87–88, 99, 103 carrillo, emilio, 196, 199 index 335 carter, Daniel, 136 catherine Street Shelter, 153 catholic Archdiocese of brooklyn, 157 center for...