The AIDS pandemic : complacency, injustice, and unfulfilled expectations
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The AIDS pandemic : complacency, injustice, and unfulfilled expectations
(Studies in social medicine)
University of North Carolina Press, c2004
Braill
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-429) and indexes
Contents of Works
- 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
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this collection of essays, Lawrence O. Gostin, a 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 US population - infected and uninfected - by influencing its social norms, economy, and the country's role as a world leader. The nation and the world still fail to respond to the needs of people living with HIV/AIDS and continue to tolerate injustice in their treatment, Gostin argues. AIDS, both in the USA and globally, deeply affects poor and marginalized populations, and many US policies are based on conservative moral values rather than public health and social justice concerns. Gostin tackles the hard social, legal, political and ethical issues of the HIV/AIDS pandemic: privacy and discrimination, travel and immigration, clinical trials and drug pricing, exclusion of HIV-infected health-care workers, testing and treatment of pregnant women and infants, and needle-exchange programmes. He provides an inside account of AIDS policy debates together with commentary.
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