Philip Alcabes

Biography

Philip Alcabes is associate professor at the School of Health Sciences, Hunter College of the City University of New York. An infectious-disease epidemiologist who has written extensively on the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS and other community-acquired infections, in recent years he has consulted on AIDS-prevention projects in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union, and studied social aspects of the AIDS pandemic. His work has appeared in the American Scholar, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Newsday, and the Washington Post.

See Work

ESSAYS / Winter 2006

Heart of Darkness: AIDS, Africa, and Race

By Philip Alcabes

Race, as much as science, has been central to the growth of medicine and public health as professions in America. Nineteenth-century physicians distinguished themselves from their competitors in the healing business, cornering the market in...