"A historical masterpiece! Just when we thought we knew everything
about the politics and policies of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, Peter
Baldwin surprises us with innovative insights about the sharp
differences in policy among countries as well as complex tradeoffs
between civil liberties and public goods. This is a refreshing and
readable book in which AIDS is used as a lens to understand the
public health enterprise ranging from leprosy and syphilis to
tuberculosis and SARS. Baldwin offers a deeply historical and
comparative understanding of HIV in the industrialized
world."--Lawrence O. Gostin, author of "Public Health Law: Power,
Duty, Restraint"
"Although a vast literature has emerged to chronicle and reflect on
the history of the AIDS epidemic since it was first reported almost
a quarter of a century ago, there is nothing like Peter Baldwin's
probing and synthetic analysis of AIDS in the industrialized world.
Building on his masterful Contagion and the State in Europe
1830-1930, Baldwin has provided a complex historical tapestry of
how an epidemic threat has challenged and exposed democracies that
thought infectious threats a thing of the past."--Ronald Bayer
author of "Private Acts, Social Cosequences: Aids and the Politics
Of Public Health" and coauthor with Gerald Oppenheimer of "AIDS
Doctors: Voices from the Epidemic"
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