The AIDS Epidemic in San Francisco: The Response of Community Physicians, 1981-1984, Vol. I

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THE AIDS EPIDEMIC IN SAN FRANCISCO: THE RESPONSE OF THE COMMUNITY PHYSICIANS, 1981-1984, Volume I, 2000, xv, 215 pp.

Richard Lee Andrews, M.D. (b.1947) psychiatrist: "coming out" and gay activism in San Francisco before AIDS; Harvey Milk; formation of BAPHR [Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights]; BAPHR response to early AIDS crisis, Kaposi's sarcoma brochure, advice regarding antibody testing, early safe sex guidelines, attempts to change gay sexual behavior; BAPHR and the bathhouse crisis; Mervyn Silverman, Will Warner and the Larry Littlejohn Initiative; BAPHR links to other AIDS and gay organizations; creation of the red ribbon as the AIDS symbol.

James M. Campbell, M.D. (b. 1936) internist: medical education and move to San Francisco; involvement with BAPHR; gay-related sexually transmitted diseases before AIDS; first recognition of AIDS as a new syndrome; early theories about the new disease; caring for early AIDS patients and advising the gay community about risk; the bathhouse crisis; BAPHR's safe sex and blood donation guidelines; opportunistic infections associated with AIDS and typical disease progression of AIDS; BAPHR's activist role and links to other AIDS organizations; early drug therapies for AIDS; discord within BAPHR regarding bathhouse closure and antibody testing.

James R. Groundwater, M.D. (b. 1937) dermatologist: medical education and move to San Francisco; first Kaposi's sarcoma case and diagnosis; Marcus Conant; diagnosing early opportunistic infections, Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia; early KS pamphlet and AIDS treatment guidelines; current involvement with AIDS medicine.

Introduction by Donald I. Abrams, M.D.

Interviewed 1996 by Sally Smith Hughes, Ph.D., for the San Francisco AIDS Oral History Series. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

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Title: The AIDS Epidemic in San Francisco: The Response of Community Physicians, 1981-1984, Vol. I
By:  Sally Smith Hughes
Date: 1996
Contributing Institution: Regional Oral History Office, University of California, Berkeley
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