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The AIDS pandemic : complacency, injustice, and unfulfilled expectations / / Lawrence O. Gostin ; foreword by Michael Kirby



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Autore: Gostin Lawrence O (Lawrence Ogalthorpe) Visualizza persona
Titolo: The AIDS pandemic : complacency, injustice, and unfulfilled expectations / / Lawrence O. Gostin ; foreword by Michael Kirby Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (492 p.)
Disciplina: 362.1/969792
Soggetto topico: AIDS (Disease) - Government policy
AIDS (Disease) - Social aspects
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-429) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations; Part 1. AIDS in the Courtroom; 1 AIDS Policy, Politics, and Law in Context; 2 The AIDS Litigation Project: The Social Impact of AIDS; 3 The AIDS Litigation Project: Privacy, Discrimination, and Vulnerable Persons; Part 2. Rights and Dignity; 4 Human Rights and Public Health in the HIV/AIDS Pandemic; 5 Health Informational Privacy in the HIV/AIDS Epidemic; 6 Stigma, Social Risk, and Discrimination; Part 3. Policy, Politics, and Ethics; 7 Testing and Screening in the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: A Public Health and Human Rights Approach
8 National HIV/AIDS Reporting9 Piercing the Veil of Secrecy: Partner Notification, the Right to Know, and the Duty to Warn; 10 The Politics of AIDS: Compulsory State Powers, Public Health, and Civil Liberties; Part 4. Special Populations; 11 Testing, Counseling, and Treatment after Sexual Assault; 12 Rights and Duties of Health Care Workers Living with HIV/AIDS; 13 Perinatal Transmission of HIV: Controversies in Screening and Policy; 14 The Interconnected Epidemics of AIDS and Drug Dependency; Part 5. AIDS in the World; 15 Screening and Exclusion of Travelers and Immigrants
16 The Global Reach of HIV/AIDS: Science, Politics, Economics, and Research17 AIDS Policy, Politics, and Law: Reflections on the Pandemic; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index of Cases; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; M; P; R; S; T; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Sommario/riassunto: 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. Now in the third decade of this pandemic, the nation and the world still fail to respond to the needs of persons living with HIV/AIDS and continue to tolerate injustice in their treatment, Gostin argues. AIDS, b
Titolo autorizzato: The AIDS pandemic  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 979-88-908720-0-5
0-8078-7583-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910826092403321
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Serie: Studies in social medicine.