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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gostin, Lawrence O. (Lawrence Ogalthorpe)

Series:

Studies in social medicine.

Studies in social medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Government policy.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (492 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-429) and index.

ISBN:

9798890872005

9780807875834

080787583X

OCLC:

476236750