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The AIDS Pandemic: Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations (Studies in Social Medicine) - Hardcover

Book 9 of 39: Studies in Social Medicine

Gostin, Lawrence O.

 
9780807828304: The AIDS Pandemic: Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations (Studies in Social Medicine)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0807828300 ISBN 13: 9780807828304
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004

Synopsis

In this collection of essays, Lawrence O. Gostin, a 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 US population - infected and uninfected - by influencing its social norms, economy, and the country's role as a world leader. The nation and the world still fail to respond to the needs of people living with HIV/AIDS and continue to tolerate injustice in their treatment, Gostin argues. AIDS, both in the USA and globally, deeply affects poor and marginalized populations, and many US policies are based on conservative moral values rather than public health and social justice concerns. Gostin tackles the hard social, legal, political and ethical issues of the HIV/AIDS pandemic: privacy and discrimination, travel and immigration, clinical trials and drug pricing, exclusion of HIV-infected health-care workers, testing and treatment of pregnant women and infants, and needle-exchange programmes. He provides an inside account of AIDS policy debates together with commentary.

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About the Author

Lawrence O. Gostin, professor and director of the Center for Law and the Public's Health at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities, has participated in many AIDS policymaking decisions since the beginning of the pandemic. Gostin has devoted a career to AIDS policy and law, serving national agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, and Institute of Medicine, as well as international bodies such as the World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS. Gostin is one of the early pioneers in the movement to ensure basic human rights for those living with HIV/AIDS.

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Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0807828300
ISBN 13 
9780807828304
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
496