AIDS And the Policy Struggle in the United States
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: August 2002
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780878403776
Subjects: AIDS: social aspects; Central government policies; Politics/International Relations; Health Policy; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; USA; Public Policy - General; Health Care Delivery; AIDS (Disease); Government policy; United States
First sentence: The policymaking process, by its very nature, is controversial.
Description: With an initial chapter that clearly follows the tangled historical string from the first realizations of a medical emergency to today's overwhelming worldwide epidemical crisis, the author goes on to look at how medical treatments for AIDS have changed and grown; how blood policies were formed; how value-based debates raged and continue to rage over prevention; how communities developed to first respond to the crisis, and later organized to fight for health care; and finally{14}now that AIDS is recognized for the global crisis it is{14}how foreign policy is being shaped.