Disease and Democracy - The Industrialized World Faces AIDS (Paperback)

"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"

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public, 13
Release date:	February 2007
First published:	February 2007
Authors:	Peter Baldwin
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	489
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-25147-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	0-520-25147-4
Barcode:	9780520251472

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