AIDS crisis in America
Subtitle: a reference handbook
By: Eric K. Lerner and Mary Ellen Hombs.
Contributors: Hombs, Mary Ellen.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Contemporary world issues
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: AIDS (Disease) -- United States -- Epidemiology; AIDS (Disease) -- Government policy -- United States; AIDS (Disease) -- United States -- Bibliography
Description: "This comprehensive revised edition documents recent developments in the AIDS crisis and the progress in addressing it since the first edition was published in 1992. An insightful introduction outlines the historical background of the epidemic and the roles of communities, business, and the government in responding to it. A chronology and biographical sketches, current facts and statistics, legislation and court cases, a directory of hot lines and organizations, and updated lists of print and nonprint resources complete this handbook, which will prove invaluable to students, nonprofit organizations, policymakers, and librarians."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Mary Ellen Hombs' name appears first on earlier ed.