Infectious ideas
Subtitle: U.S. political responses to the AIDS crisis
By: by Jennifer Brier.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press; The University of North Carolina Press; Brand: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780807833148
Subjects: AIDS (Disease) -- Political aspects -- United States -- History; AIDS (Disease) -- Government policy -- United States -- History; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- epidemiology -- United States; Federal Government -- United States; History, 20th Century -- United States; History, 21st Century -- United States; Public Policy -- United States; Social Conditions -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Affection is our best protection : early AIDS activism and the legacy of gay liberation; title: Marketing safe sex : the politics of sexuality, race, and class in San Francisco, 1983-1991; title: What should the federal government do to deal with the problem of AIDS? : the Reagan administration's response; title: AIDS, reproductive rights, and economic empowerment : the Ford foundation's response to AIDS in the global south, 1987-1995; title: Drugs into bodies, bodies into health care : the AIDS coalition to unleash power and the struggle over how best to fight AIDS; title: We struggle against it together : the South African AIDS alliance, 1996-2003.