The AIDS pandemic complacency, injustice, and unfulfilled expectations

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1. Verfasser: Gostin, Lawrence O., (Lawrence Ogalthorpe) (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press ©2004
Schriftenreihe:Studies in social medicine
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
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: compulsory state powers, public health, and civil liberties -- Testing, counseling, and treatment after sexual assault -- Rights and duties of health care workers living with HIV/AIDS -- Perinatal transmission of HIV: controversies in screening and policy -- The interconnected epidemics of AIDS and drug dependency -- Screening and exclusion of travelers and immigrants -- The global reach of HIV/AIDS: science, politics, economics, and research -- AIDS policy, politics, and law: reflections on the pandemic
In this collection of essays, Lawrence O. Gostin confronts the pressing and controversial issues surrounding AIDS in America and around the world. He shows how HIV/AIDS affects the entire US population - infected and uninfected - by influencing its social norms, economy, and the country's role
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ISBN:0807828300
080787583X
9780807828304
9780807875834