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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brier, Jennifer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects--United States--History.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS (Disease)--Government policy--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-9313-189-5

979-88-908791-7-2

1-4696-0528-7

0-8078-9547-4

OCLC:

489150199