The AIDS pandemic : complacency, injustice, and unfulfilled expectations /
In this collection of essays, Lawrence O. Gostin confronts the pressing and controversial issues surrounding AIDS in America and around the world. He shows how HIV/AIDS affects the entire US population - infected and uninfected - by influencing its social norms, economy, and the country's role.
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| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill ; London :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2004]
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| Series: | Studies in social medicine.
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Table of Contents:
- AIDS policy, politics, and law in context
- The AIDS litigation project: the social impact of AIDS
- The AIDS litigation project: privacy, discrimination, and vulnerable persons
- Human rights and public health in the HIV/AIDS pandemic
- Health informational privacy in the HIV/AIDS epidemic
- Stigma, social risk, and discrimination
- Testing and screening in the HIV/AIDS epidemic: a public health and human rights
- Approach
- National HIV/AIDS reporting
- Piercing the veil of secrecy: partner notification, the right to know, and the
- Duty to warn
- The politics of AIDS: compulsory state powers, public health, and civil liberties
- Testing, counseling, and treatment after sexual assault
- Rights and duties of health care workers living with HIV/AIDS
- Perinatal transmission of HIV: controversies in screening and policy
- The interconnected epidemics of AIDS and drug dependency
- Screening and exclusion of travelers and immigrants
- The global reach of HIV/AIDS: science, politics, economics, and research
- AIDS policy, politics, and law: reflections on the pandemic.
