The AIDS Pandemic: Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations Pdf

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Edition: 1
Release: 2004-02-23
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0807828300
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

The AIDS Pandemic pdf
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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, both in the United States and globally, deeply affects poor and marginalized populations, and many U.S. 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-infe Download The AIDS Pandemic for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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