Disease and democracy : the industrialized world faces AIDS /

Disease and Democracy is the first comparative analysis of how Western democratic nations have coped with AIDS. Peter Baldwin's exploration of divergent approaches to the epidemic in the United States and several European nations is a springboard for a wide-ranging and sophisticated historical...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baldwin, Peter, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : New York : University of California Press ; Milbank Memorial Fund, ©2005.
Colección:California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 13.
Temas:
AIDS (Disease) > Developed countries.
Democracy.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > prevention & control
Public Health Practice
Democracy
Disease Outbreaks > history
Sida > Pays industrialisés.
Démocratie.
democracy.
MEDICAL > AIDS & HIV.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > AIDS & HIV.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > prevention and control.
Public Health Practice.
Developed Countries.
Disease Outbreaks > History.
AIDS (Disease)
Developed countries.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Bodily fluids and citizenship
  • What came first
  • Fighting the last war : traditional public health strategies and AIDS
  • Patients into prisoners : responsibility, crime, and health
  • Discrimination and its discontents : protecting the victims
  • Every man his own quarantine officer : the voluntary approach
  • The polymorphous politics of prevention
  • To die laughing : gays and other interest groups
  • Vox populi suprema lex est : expertise, authority, and democracy
  • Clio intervenes : the effect of the past on public health
  • Liberty, authority, and the state in the AIDS era.

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