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AIDS, Fear and Society - Challenging the Dreaded Disease (Hardcover)
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AIDS, Fear and Society - Challenging the Dreaded Disease (Hardcover)
Series: Death Education, Aging and Health Care
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Historically, AIDS is just one of a series of dreaded diseases that
have aroused both great fear and irrational actions. The previous
diseases, including bubonic plague, syphilis, tuberculosis, leprosy
and cancer, have evoked such a sense of dread that rational moves
to halt the disease have become compromised.;This text examines the
deep sense of fear that AIDS evokes, stigmatizing those who suffer
from the disease, as well as their families and caregivers. Until
AIDS can be seen for what it actually is - a life-threatening
disease - policies providing for humane treatment will not evolve.
The book also emphasizes that diseases are more than biological
phenomena or individual catastrophes - they are profoundly social
events. The ways in which diseases are spread and treated are
strongly influenced by larger sociological considerations, and they
may have the capacity to change social institutions or society
itself. Rooting AIDS in the history of diseases, the first part of
the book reviews the nature, history and responses of earlier
dreaded diseases. The next section examines AIDS itself, proposed
as the archetypal dreaded disease. Already creating a sense of
panic, AIDS is also s
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