AIDS and the policy struggle in the United States / Patricia D. Siplon.
With an initial chapter that clearly follows the tangled historical string from the first realizations of a medical emergency to today's overwhelming worldwide epidemical crisis, the author goes on to look at how medical treatments for AIDS have changed and grown; how blood policies were formed...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Washington, DC :
Georgetown University Press,
[2002]
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Summary: | With an initial chapter that clearly follows the tangled historical string from the first realizations of a medical emergency to today's overwhelming worldwide epidemical crisis, the author goes on to look at how medical treatments for AIDS have changed and grown; how blood policies were formed; how value-based debates raged and continue to rage over prevention; how communities developed to first respond to the crisis, and later organized to fight for health care; and finally{14}now that AIDS is recognized for the global crisis it is{14}how foreign policy is being shaped. |
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Item Description: | Notes: p. [141]-154. Includes index. |
Physical Description: | xii, 162 pages ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-154) and index. |
ISBN: | 0878403787 9780878403783 0878403779 9780878403776 |