The AIDS reader : social, political, and ethical issues / edited by Nancy F. McKenzie, Ph.D.

New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Meridian, 1991.

x, 597 pages ; 21 cm

Copy 1. Donor: Susie Daniel.

Introduction : the demands of the HIV epidemic / Nancy F. McKenzie -- The human immunodeficiency virus : infectivity and mechanisms of pathogenesis / Anthony S. Fauci -- Human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome : correlation but not causation / Peter H. Duesberg -- HIV infection and its epidemiology (excerpt from National Academy of Sciences Confront AIDS : update 1988) -- The terrifying normalcy of AIDS / Stephen Jay Gould -- The plague years / Larry Kramer -- AIDS in blackface / Harlon L. Dalton -- Drug AIDS in the city of New York : a study of dependent children, housing, and drug addiction treatment / Ernest Drucker -- Housing, homelessness, and the impact of HIV disease / Peter Ano -- Women--the missing persons in the AIDS epidemic / Kathryn Anastos and Carola Marte -- The special needs of women, children, and adolescents / Carol Levine -- Uninsured and underserved : inequities of health care in the United States / Karen Davis and Diane Rowland -- Health benefits : how the system is responding to AIDS / the staff of the National Health Law Program (NHeLP) -- AIDS and the future of hospital care ; Long-term care : a long-term commitment / Jesse Green -- Testimony of David Barr of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund at the NYS legislature hearings on primary health care and AIDS -- AIDS in historical perspective : four lessons from the history of sexually transmitted diseases / Allan M. Brandt -- HIV antibody screening : an ethical framework for evaluating proposed programs / Ronald Bayer, Carol Levine, Susan M. Wolf -- The ethics of screening for early prevention in HIV disease / Carol Levine and Ronald Bayer -- Prevention : can we mobilize what has been learned? / June E. Osborn -- "Opinion, Supreme Court of the United States, July 1986, Bowers v. Hardwick" -- Morality and the health of the body politic / Dan E. Beauchamp -- Medical confidentiality : an intransigent and absolute obligation / Michael H. Kottow -- Invisible minorities, civic rights, democracy : three arguments for gay rights / Richard D. Mohr -- AIDS discrimination : its nature, meaning, and function / David I. Schulman -- An expanded role for community-based organizations / Peter Arno -- Preventing AIDS among women : the role of community organizing / Nancy Stoller Shaw -- Community empowerment as a strategy for health promotion for black and other minority populations / Ronald L. Braithwaite and Ngina Lythcott -- A week on Ward 5A / Ed Wolf -- Against all odds : grass-roots minority groups fight AIDS / William Deresiewicz -- Supporting people with AIDS : the GMHC model / Lewis Katoff and Susan Ince -- A city responds / Elizabeth Fernandez -- Bearing witness / George Whitmore.

Includes bibliographical references.