Perry Taylor
Can Bull Med Hist. 2016 Spring;33(1):103-30. doi: 10.3138/cbmh.33.1.103.
Traditional histories of AIDS have used a few major American urban centres as proxies for the North American epidemic more broadly and have tended to frame the epidemic as a quintessentially gay and American experience. A careful examination of how the epidemic unfolded in Vancouver, British Columbia, however, reveals considerable differences, including the relative absence of local gay activist traditions prior to HIV/AIDS and the relative prominence of interventions such as Insite, North America's first sanctioned needle exchange program and safe injection site. An investigation of such differences emphasizes the local character of the epidemic and adds a Canadian perspective to the existing AIDS historiography.
传统的艾滋病历史将美国的几个主要城市中心作为更广泛的北美疫情的代表，并倾向于将疫情描述为一种典型的同性恋且源自美国的经历。然而，仔细审视不列颠哥伦比亚省温哥华市疫情的发展情况，会发现存在显著差异，包括在艾滋病毒/艾滋病出现之前当地同性恋维权传统相对缺失，以及诸如北美首个获批的针头交换项目和安全注射点Insite等干预措施较为突出。对这些差异的调查强调了疫情的地方特色，并为现有的艾滋病史学研究增添了加拿大视角。
