The AIDS epidemic
Subtitle: social dimensions of an infectious disease
By: William A. Rushing.
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Boulder, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects.; AIDS (Disease) -- Epidemiology.
Description: This comprehensive introduction to the problem of AIDS lays out the medical facts and social epidemiology of the disease and illuminates the complex social problems this disease poses for the United States and other nations. Each chapter introduces a key sociological approach that clarifies how social scientists understand and explain important social dimensions of the AIDS epidemic.

The author's use of historical comparisons with other deadly epidemics sets in relief the social problems presented by AIDS today.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-273) and index.