The AIDS pandemic
Subtitle: complacency, injustice, and unfulfilled expectations
By: Lawrence O. Gostin ; foreword by Michael Kirby.
Series: Studies in social medicine
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
Subjects: AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects; AIDS (Disease) -- Government policy
Description: "In this collection of essays, Lawrence O. Gostin, an internationally recognized 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 population - infected and uninfected - by influencing our social norms, our economy, and our country's role as a world leader." "Gostin blends his own legal scholarship with social commentary on AIDS policy, politics, and law. He gauges the national and international responses to the pandemic from its origins in 1981 through an initial phase of public denial and then a phase of intense awareness and mobilization. We are now in a third phase, he asserts, which is marked by complacency, injustice, and unfulfilled expectations."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: AIDS policy, politics, and law in context; title: The AIDS litigation project: the social impact of AIDS; title: The AIDS litigation project: privacy, discrimination, and vulnerable persons; title: Human rights and public health in the HIV/AIDS pandemic; title: Health informational privacy in the HIV/AIDS epidemic; title: Stigma, social risk, and discrimination; title: Testing and screening in the HIV/AIDS epidemic: a public health and human rights approach; title: National HIV/AIDS reporting; title: Piercing the veil of secrecy: partner notification, the right to know, and the duty to warn; title: The politics of AIDS: compulsory state powers, public health, and civil liberties; title: Testing, counseling, and treatment after sexual assault; title: Rights and duties of health care workers living with HIV/AIDS; title: Perinatal transmission of HIV: controversies in screening and policy; title: The interconnected epidemics of AIDS and drug dependency; title: Screening and exclusion of travelers and immigrants; title: The global reach of HIV/AIDS: science, politics, economics, and research; title: AIDS policy, politics, and law: reflections on the pandemic.