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The AIDS pandemic : complacency, injustice, and unfulfilled expectations /

"In this collection of essays, Lawrence O. Gostin, an internationally recognized scholar of AIDS law and policy, confronts the most pressing and controversial issues surrounding AIDS in America and around the world. He shows how HIV/AIDS affects the entire population - infected and uninfected -...

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Main Authors: Gostin, Lawrence O. Lawrence Ogalthorpe
Group Author: Kirby, Michael
Published: University of North Carolina Press,
Publisher Address: Chapel Hill :
Publication Dates: [2004]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Studies in social medicine
Subjects:
AIDS Disease > Social aspects
AIDS Disease > Government policy
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
HIV infections
Disease Outbreaks > History
Jurisprudence
Public Policy
Summary: "In this collection of essays, Lawrence O. Gostin, an internationally recognized scholar of AIDS law and policy, confronts the most pressing and controversial issues surrounding AIDS in America and around the world. He shows how HIV/AIDS affects the entire population - infected and uninfected - by influencing our social norms, our economy, and our country's role as a world leader." "Gostin blends his own legal scholarship with social commentary on AIDS policy, politics, and law. He gauges the national and international responses to the pandemic from its origins in 1981 through an initial pha
Carrier Form: xli, 445 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780807828304
0807828300
9780807854976
0807854972
Index Number: RA643
CLC: R512.91
Call Number: R512.91/G682
Contents: AIDS policy, politics, and law in context -- The AIDS litigation project: the social impact of AIDS -- The AIDS litigation project: privacy, discrimination, and vulnerable persons -- Human rights and public health in the HIV/AIDS pandemic -- Health informational privacy in the HIV/AIDS epidemic -- Stigma, social risk, and discrimination -- Testing and screening in the HIV/AIDS epidemic: a public health and human rights -- Approach -- National HIV/AIDS reporting -- Piercing the veil of secrecy: partner notification, the right to know, and the -- Duty to warn -- The politics of AIDS: compulsor

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