Title: The AIDS epidemic
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.
Subjects: Social aspects, Epidemiology, AIDS (Disease), Social aspects of AIDS (Disease), Medical Sociology, Aspect social, Epidemiologie, Soziokultureller Faktor, Sida, AIDS, Sociale aspecten, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Aids (disease), social aspects, Aids (disease), epidemiology