Community in a Time of Crisis: Yale, New Haven, and HIV/AIDS, 1981-1996

Further Reading

Oral Histories of AIDS in New Haven

• Edward Kaplan’s oral history of the needle exchange.
• Ed Kaplan's INFORMS History & Traditions Interview, including segments on AIDS research and needle exchange.

News articles, background reading, and Yale press releases about AIDS in New Haven

• Bass, Paul. “City Closes Needle Exchange.” New Haven Independent, January 3, 2017.
  https://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/city_hands_needle_exchange_/
• Cannell, Tom. “The Struggle to Implement Needle Exchange in Three Cities.” The Yale Journal of Public Health 1, no. 2 (2004).
• Cheng, Amy & Kan, Ellen. “Yale to take over syringe exchange in New Haven.” The Yale Daily News, January 19, 2017.
  https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2017/01/19/yale-to-take-over-syringe-exchange-in-new-haven/
• Corless, Inge B, and Lindeman M. Pittman. AIDS: Principles, Practices, and Politics. Taylor & Francis, 1988.
• Corman, Cathy. "Connecticut Q&A: Dr. Alvin Novick; AIDS, Health Professionals and Social Policy." The New York Times, December 1, 1991. 
  https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/01/nyregion/connecticut-qa-dr-alvin-novick-aids-health-professionals-and-social.html
• Curtis, John. “What the needles said.” Yale Medicine, 2001. 
  https://medicine.yale.edu/news/yale-medicine-magazine/what-the-needles-said/
• Dahl, Julia. “Senator seeks to end needle exchange.” Yale Herald, January 31, 1997, Xxiii. 
• Day, Cassandra. “World AIDS Day Marked With Memorial Quilt Unveiling in Middletown,” Patch Media, Dec 7, 2013. 
  https://patch.com/connecticut/middletown-ct/community-health-center-inc-commemorates-world-aids-day--oasis-wellness-center-unveils-aids-memorial-quilt
• Gellman, Lucy. “‘Alternate Endings’ Gives Connecticut An Activist Template,” Arts Council of Greater New Haven, December 3rd, 2018
  https://www.newhavenarts.org/arts-paper/articles/alternate-endings-gives-connecticut-an-activist-template
• Greenwood, Michael. “Public Health Pioneers.” November 06, 2014
  https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/8282/
• Hayat, Janeen. “Needle Program Defies its Critics.” Yale Daily News, November 6, 2001. 
  https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2001/11/06/needle-program-defies-its-critics/
• Jansson J. "The Connecticut Hospice, Inc. and AIDS: a profile." Conn Med. 1988 Sep;52(9):541. 
  https://archive.org/details/connecticutmedic5211conn/page/541/mode/1up?q=%22Connecticut+Hospice%22
• Johnson, Kirk. “New Haven Plans to Give Drug Addicts New Needles.” The New York Times, May 24, 1990. 
  https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/24/nyregion/new-haven-plans-to-give-drug-addicts-new-needles.html
• Jones, Paula M. “Needle Exchange in New Haven.” AIDS Information Exchange 9, no. 1 (March 1992): 1-15. 
• Kaplan, Edward and Elaine O’Keefe. “Let the Needles Do the Talking! Evaluating the New Haven Needle Exchange.” Interfaces 23 (1 January-February 1993): 7-26. 
  https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/inte.23.1.7
• Leger, LIndsey. “Community Van Now Used to Combat COVID-19,” May 19, 2020. 
  https://covid.yale.edu/news-article/24850/ 
• Max, Jill. “Turning the Tide of AIDS in New Haven, in a collaborative style.” Yale Medicine Magazine (Spring 2005). 
  https://medicine.yale.edu/news/yale-medicine-magazine/turning-the-tide-of-aids-in-new-haven/
• Nichols, Michele E. "Angels, Actual Reality & AIDS in New Haven: a Case Study." Wesleyan University Senior Thesis (April 2009).
  https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/bd89/659638eb530c17ef38ebd782edbac224ccce.pdf
• Office of Public Affairs & Communications. “Yale Honors Community HIV/AIDS Activist for Partnership with University,” October 30, 2001.
  https://covid.yale.edu/news-article/3326/
• Parry, Julie. “Community Health Care Van Serving the Underserved Community With New Mission,” April 27, 2020. 
  https://medicine.yale.edu/intmed/news-article/24250/
• Paul Stephen Galatowitsch papers (MS 2085). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. 
  https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/12/resources/10838 
• Pearce, Jeremy. "Dr. Alvin Novick, Biologist and Advocate for AIDS Victims, Dies at 79." The New York Times, May 1, 2005.
  https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/01/obituaries/dr-alvin-novick-biologist-and-advocate-for-aids-victims-dies-at.html
• Pincock, Stepen. "Obituary: Alvin Novick." The Lancet, June 11, 2005, vol. 365. 
  https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS014067360566686X.pdf
• Poitras, Colin. "Middlesex AIDS Buddy Group Seeks Volunteers," The Hartford Courant, February 28, 1994.
  https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-1994-02-28-9402280326-story.html
• Ravo, Nick. “In New Haven, Election is Mayor’s Least Worry.” The New York Times, September 11, 1987. 
  https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/11/nyregion/in-new-haven-election-is-mayor-s-least-worry.html
• Rierden, Andi. “In New Haven, Taking Action Against AIDS.” The New York TImes, January 30, 1994.
  https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/30/nyregion/in-new-haven-taking-action-against-aids.html
• Rierden, Andi. “New Haven Sends Needles into Battle Against AIDS.” The New York Times, December 9, 1990. 
  https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/09/nyregion/new-haven-sends-needles-into-the-battle-against-aids.html
• Susman, Stacy. An Analysis of costs associated with AIDS care at Connecticut Hospice Cottage (Yale MPH thesis, 1991).
• Stern, Scott W, "Rethinking Complicity in the Surveillance of Sex Workers: Policing and Prostitution in America's Model City." 31 Yale J.L. & Feminism (2019).
  https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/yjlf/vol31/iss2/4
• “William Sabella, 47, An Educator on AIDS.” The New York Times, July 30, 1992.
  https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/30/obituaries/william-sabella-47-an-educator-on-aids.html
• Yale Bulletin and Calendar. “Display of AIDS Quilt will balance public programs with periods of quiet reflection," December 7-14, 1998, Vol 27, No. 15.
  http://archives.news.yale.edu/v27.n15/story7.html
• Yale School of Medicine. “Community Health Care Van Serving the Underserved Community With New Mission,” May 10, 2020.
  https://cira.yale.edu/news/community-health-care-van-serving-underserved-community-new-mission
• Yale University School of Nursing. ”AIDS Case Study and Commentary” and “What About AIDS,” in Yale Nurse: Yale University School of Nursing Newsletter, January 1988. Yale School of Nursing Alumni Newsletters and Magazines. Book 28.
  http://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ysn_alumninews/28
• Yale University. School of Medicine. “Public Policy in the Age of AIDS” in Yale Medicine : Alumni Bulletin of the School of Medicine, Fall 1990- Summer 1992. Yale Medicine Alumni Newsletters, Bulletins, and Magazines. 11.
  https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/yale_med_alumni_newsletters/11
• “The U.S. Public Health Service has termed Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) a ‘public health problem that merits the highest level of concern’” in Yale Medicine Alumni Bulletin of the School of Medicine: Spring 1984 Vol.19, No.l. Yale Medicine : Alumni Bulletin of the School of Medicine, 1982-1985.
  https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=yale_med_alumni_newsletters

General AIDS Research

• AAHIVM Webinar: “Addressing Health Disparities: It Didn't Begin with HIV and Won't End with COVID-19” https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/6JIoJun5rj43SYLH4gSDAKAsW9S1Kq6s1nIXq6EOnUy1V3hRO1Twb7JAYiSlhK6JJcbBw7owiKVU_t8?startTime=1590706798000&_x_zm_rtaid=WfLOLA7RQE6w6gt3pzXXkQ.1591329043637.6f64e932ff0b633c32afd09ab880d396&_x_zm_rhtaid=695
• Ansley, Jennifer. "'Thinking with Care' in the Archives of the early AIDS Crisis." The Abusable Past, September 23, 2019. 
  https://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/abusablepast/thinking-with-care-in-the-archives-of-the-early-aids-crisis/
• Batza, Katie. Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics in the 1970s. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 
• Bayer, Ronald, and Gerald M. Oppenheimer. AIDS Doctors: Voices from the Epidemic: an Oral History. Oxford University Press, 2003. 
• Brier, Jennifer. Infectious Ideas: US Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis. University of North Carolina Press, 2009. 
• Carroll, Tamar W. Mobilizing New York: AIDS, Antipoverty, and Feminist Activism. The University of North Carolina Press, 2015. 
• Epstein, Steven. Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge. Univ. of California Press, 1998.
• -- “The construction of lay expertise: AIDS Activism and the Forging of Credibility in the Reform of Clinical Trials,” Science, Technology & Human Values 20.4 (1995): 408-437.
• Fee, Elizabeth, and Daniel M. Fox. AIDS: the Making of a Chronic Disease. University of California Press, 1992. 
• Gould, Deborah B. Moving Politics Emotion and Act Up's Fight against AIDS. University of Chicago Press, 2009. 
• Hanhardt, Christina,B. “Dead Addicts Don’t Recover”: ACT UP’s Needle Exchange and the Subjects of Queer Activist History. GLQ 1 October 2018; 24 (4): 421–444. 
• Hoffman, Beatrix, Rebecca. “Chapter 8: Emergency Rooms and Epidemics," in Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930, The University of Chicago Press, 2013. 
• McKay, Richard A. Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic. University of Chicago Press, 2018. 
• Risse, Guenter B. Mending Bodies, Saving Souls: a History of Hospitals. Oxford University Press, 2011. 
• Rosenberg, Charles. “What is an Epidemic? AIDS in Historical Perspective,” in Charles Rosenberg, ed. Explaining Epidemics and Other Studies in the History of Medicine (1992)
• Royles, Dan. To Make the Wounded Whole: the African American Struggle against HIV/AIDS. The University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 
• Wallis, Patrick. "Debating a Duty to Treat: AIDS and the Professional Ethics of American Medicine." Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 85 no. 4, 2011, p. 620-649. 
• Wright, Joe.  “Only Your Calamity: The Beginnings of Activism by and for People with AIDS,” American Journal of Public Health, October 2013.
   

AIDS & The History of Sexuality

• Bersani, Leo. “Is the Rectum a Grave?” October, vol. 43, 1987, pp. 197–222.
• Bost, Darius. Evidence of Being the Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence. The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
• Cheng, Jih-Fei, et al. AIDS and the Distribution of Crises. Duke University Press, 2020.
• Clement, Elizabeth Alice. "The Stories of AIDS." American Quarterly, vol. 69 no. 4, 2017, p. 917-933.
• Cohen, Cathy J. The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics. University of Chicago Press, 2006.
• Gould, Deborah B. Moving Politics Emotion and Act Up's Fight against AIDS. University of Chicago Press, 2009. 
• HIV/AIDS and U.S. History, Journal of American History, Volume 104, Issue 2, September 2017, Pages 431–460,
• Linds JA. “Ferments and the AIDS virus: interspecies counter-conduct in the history of AIDS,” Medical Humanities 2019;45:435-442.
• Patton, Cindy. Inventing AIDS. Routledge, 1990.
• Roth, Benita. The Life and Death of ACT UP/LA: Anti-AIDS Activism in Los Angeles from the 1980s to the 2000s. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
• Schulman, Sarah. The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination. California University Press, 2013.
• Stryker, Susan. Transgender History: the Roots of Todays Revolution. Seal Press, 2017.
• Woubshet, Dagmawi. The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.

Queer New Haven

• Chauncey, George. "Gay at Yale." Yale Alumni Magazine, Jul/Aug 2009. 
  https://yalealumnimagazine.com/articles/2482?page=1
• Gellman, Lucy. "LGBTQ History Comes Alive." New Haven Independent, September 19, 2016.
  https://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/lgbt_history_tour/

AIDS and Art

• Cohen, Danielle. "How HIV/AIDS Impacted American Art." The Cut, July 21, 2016.
  https://www.thecut.com/2016/07/hiv-aids-art-a-deeper-dive-leslie-lohman-museum-of-gay-lesbian-art.html
• Cotter, Holland. "Art of the AIDS Years: What Took Museums So Long?" The New York Times, July 28, 2016.
  https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/29/arts/design/art-of-the-aids-years-addressing-history-absorbing-fear.html