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AIDS law today : a new guide for the public /

How does the law deal with the AIDS epidemic and the controversial issues it has generated? What right does a person with HIV have to privacy, to employment, to treatment, to public services, or to insurance? What are the legal obligations of health care workers, blood banks, prisons, people who hav...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Yale AIDS Law Project (Editor )
Otros Autores: Burris, Scott (Editor ), Dalton, Harlon L. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1993]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part one. Background
  • Preface to AIDS and the law : a guide for the public (1987) / Harlon L. Dalton
  • A little law for non-lawyers / Scott Burris
  • Transmission and treatment / Helena Brett-Smith and Gerald H. Friedland
  • A historical perspective / Allan M. Brandt
  • A seat on the merry-go-round : a consumer's view / Belinda Ann Mason
  • Part two. Primary public health measures against HIV
  • Traditional public health strategies / Larry Gostin
  • Education to reduce the spread of HIV / Scott Burris
  • Testing, disclosure, and the right to privacy / Scott Burris
  • Drug dependency and HIV / Larry Gostin
  • Part three. HIV in the public sector
  • HIV screening and discrimination : the federal example / Donna I. Dennis
  • Reproduction and parenting / Taunya Lovell Banks
  • Criminal law / Harlon L. Dalton
  • HIV in prison / Alexa Freeman
  • Part four. Private sector responses to HIV
  • Discrimination / Arthur S. Leonard
  • Housing issues / Daniel R. Mandelker
  • Torts : private lawsuits about HIV / Donald H.J. Hermann and Scott Burris
  • Part five. HIV in the health care and insurance systems
  • Physicians versus lawyers : a conflict of cultures / Daniel M. Fox
  • Patients and health care workers / Troyen A. Brennan
  • Private insurance / Mark Scherzer.