Disease and democracy : the industrialized world faces AIDS / Peter Baldwin.

  • Baldwin, Peter, 1956-
Date:
[2005], ©2005
  • Books

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Berkeley ; London : University of California Press ; New York : Milbank Memorial Fund, [2005], ©2005.

Physical description

xii, 465 pages ; 24 cm.

Contents

Bodily fluids and citizenship -- What came first -- Fighting the last war : traditional public health strategies and AIDS -- Patients into prisoners : responsibility, crime, and health -- Discrimination and its discontents : protecting the victims -- Every man his own quarantine officer : the voluntary approach -- The polymorphous politics of prevention -- To die laughing : gays and other interest groups -- Vox populi suprema lex est : expertise, authority, and democracy -- Clio intervenes : the effect of the past on public health -- Liberty, authority, and the state in the AIDS era.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
    FEJ /BAL
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  • 0520243501