Infectious ideas : U.S. political responses to the AIDS crisis / / Jennifer Brier

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910823496703321
• Autore: Brier Jennifer
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009
• ISBN: 1-4696-0528-7; 0-8078-9547-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (310 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.196/9792
• Soggetti: AIDS (Disease) - Political aspects - United States - History; AIDS (Disease) - Government policy - United States - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Affection is our best protection : early AIDS activism and the legacy of gay liberation -- Marketing safe sex : the politics of sexuality, race, and class in San Francisco, 1983-1991 -- What should the federal government do to deal with the problem of AIDS? : the Reagan administration's response -- AIDS, reproductive rights, and economic empowerment : the Ford Foundation's response to AIDS in the global south, 1987-1995 -- Drugs into bodies, bodies into health care : the AIDS coalition to unleash power and the struggle over how best to fight AIDS -- We struggle against it together : the South African AIDS alliance, 1996-2003.
• Sommario/riassunto: Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis