The AIDS pandemic : complacency, injustice, and unfulfilled expectations

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gostin, Lawrence O.
Language:English
Series:Studies in social medicine.
Subjects:
Physical Description:xli, 445 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-432) and indexes.
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
ISBN:0807828300 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807854972 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Table of Contents:
  • AIDS policy, politics, and law in context
  • AIDS litigation project : the social impact of AIDS
  • AIDS litigation project : privacy, discrimination, and vulnerable persons
  • Human rights and public health in the HIV/AIDS pandemic
  • Health informational privacy in the HIV/AIDS epidemic
  • Stigma, social risk, and discrimination
  • Testing and screening in the HIV/AIDS epidemic : a public health and human rights approach
  • National HIV/AIDS reporting
  • Piercing the veil of secrecy : partner notification, the right to know, and the duty to warn
  • Politics of AIDS : compulsory state powers, public health, and civil liberties
  • Testing, counseling, and treatment after sexual assault
  • Rights and duties of health care workers living with HIV/AIDS
  • Perinatal transmission of HIV : controversies in screening and policy
  • Iinterconnected epidemics of AIDS and drug dependency
  • Screening and exclusion of travelers and immigrants
  • Global reach of HIV/AIDS : science, politics, economics, and research
  • AIDS policy, politics, and law: reflections on the pandemic.