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Richard M. Glass, MD

JAMA. 1988;259(9):1369-1370.

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The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic has clearly involved the extremes of human emotions—for both its victims and the general public struggling to come to terms with it. The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome has fostered panic, hatred, and hopelessness, as well as instances of love and compassion in the face of fear and dread. Visual images of these emotional extremes have varied from the distorted faces of parents with ill-informed rage and fear about the presence of a child who is seropositive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibodies in their children's school to the Pope embracing a child with AIDS on his recent tour of the United States. Although any serious illness can involve strong feelings, the intensity of emotional responses to AIDS may be at least partially due to its linkage of two of life's most powerful experiences—sex and death.

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