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Article: THE WAGES OF SIN: SEX AND DISEASE, PAST AND PRESENT.(Review)
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- Theological Studies
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- March 1, 2001
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THE WAGES OF SIN: SEX AND DISEASE, PAST AND PRESENT. By Peter Lewis Allen. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2000. Pp. xxiii + 202. $25.
In 1982, I and a group of other young physicians, residents in Internal Medicine, chuckled nervously over the description of a young gay man with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and Kaposi's sarcoma as suffering from W.O.G.--wrath of God syndrome. Stupid, grossly insensitive jokes were only the tip of the iceberg in reactions to the epidemic of AIDS that began in the early 1980s.
Allen explores the roots of intolerance manifested in reactions to individuals with AIDS by examining Western cultural attitudes to a variety of ...