Lucid and compellingly written, Patricia Siplon has immersed
herself in the history and ongoing firestorms of how AIDS policies
are influenced, fought over, and enacted in the United States.
"AIDS and the Policy Struggle in the United States" is equally as
engrossing and as revealing in its own way as "And the Band Played
On." With an initial chapter that clearly follows the tangled
historical string from the first realizations of a medical
emergency to today's overwhelming worldwide epidemical crisis, she
goes on to look at how medical treatments have changed and grown;
how blood policies were formed; how value-based debates raged and
continue to rage over prevention; how communities developed to
first respond to the crisis, and later organized to fight for
health care; and finally-now that AIDS is recognized for the global
crisis it is-how foreign policy is being shaped.
Invaluable for activists and anyone involved in fighting for the
humane treatment of people with HIV/AIDS around the world, this is
also an important and insightful guide to the how and what of
public policy as it is fashioned out of the clay of U.S. democratic
institutions.
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