MHS-2410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Retrovirus, Luc Montagnier, Microbiological Culture
4 Nov 2016
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It became clear that the epidemic is not restricted to gay men, yet the focus of attention in all medical literature remained squarely on male homosexual sufferers. Homosexuals are at increased risk for the acquisition of common viral infections, yet this syndrome is new. The immune overload model: the combined effect of persistent viral infections plus an adjuvant drug, cause immunosuppression in some genetically predisposed men. Gay men confronted all these risks at once. Epidemiology is a normalizing science, employing and reinforcing unexamined notions of normality to measure and classify deviations from the norm. The apparent epidemiological difference in the incidence of any medical condition actually derives from factors of selectivity and attention. Doctors assume that the cases they see are identical to those they don"t see. Some people get better medical attention: gay men vs. injection drug users. Modern conceptions of gay identity has always been medicalized:
