...,” or discouraged from applying to aid by welfare's new requirements surrounding work and treatment. Second, they might be “weeded out,” or face discrimination in the application process because of concerns about the difficulty of moving them successfully from welfare to work. Third, they might be “bumped down...

...Mark Carl Rom Steven Epstein. Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 480 pp.$40.00 cloth; $17.95 paper. Stephanie Kane. AIDS Alibis: Sex, Drugs,and Crime in the Americas . Philadelphia: Temple University Press,1998...

...John A. Bartlett Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Christine Grady. The Search for an AIDS Vaccine: Ethical Issues in the Development and Testing of a Preventive AIDS Vaccine. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. 193 pp. $26.50 cloth...

... Warren Greenberg Sandra Panem, The AIDS Bureaucracy: Why Society Failed to Meet the AIDS Crisis and How We Might Improve Our Response (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988), 194 pp. The AIDS Bureaucracy is a welcome and important book because it carefully analyzes the complete...

...Judith A. Rabin Some legal scholars propose that the right of privacy articulated by the United States Supreme Court should be extended to protect homosexual activity. In light of the advent of AIDS, should that extension include constitutional protection for homosexual men who frequent gay...

... the privacy rights of patients, the patients' rights should prevail. AIDS Testing and Informed Consent Martha S. Swartz, Thomas Jefferson University Abstract. This article examines whether hospitals should obtain specific informed consent for HIV testing in addition...

...Eduardo J. Gómez Using a temporal approach dividing the reform process into two periods, this article explains how both Brazil and the United States were slow to respond to AIDS. However, Brazil eventually outpaced the United States in its response due to international rather than democratic...

...Ronald Bayer Dennis Altman, The AIDS Crisis: AIDS in the Mind of America (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1986), 240 pp., $19.95; Kevin M. Cahill, ed., The AIDS Epidemic (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983), 192 pp. $12.95 hardbound, $7.95 paperback; Ann Giudici Fettner...

...Jesse Green; Gerald M. Oppenheimer; Neil Wintfeld The increasing incidence of AIDS in the 1980s prompted inquiry into the resources required to meet projected needs. In the first economic study to appear on the illness, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimated that the costs of inpatient...

...David C. Colby; Timothy E. Cook We examine why the exponential growth of AIDS cases or the widespread professional perception of a health crisis did not move the epidemic more quickly onto the agenda of public problems. One possible explanation focuses on how the national news media's construction...

... and an emerging civil society presence. We discuss the critical importance of timing for policy intervention and the role of health policy in shaping the broader social terrain. The interventions of external actors such as the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Global Fund were...

...Tasleem J. Padamsee Abstract The history of government action on HIV/AIDS has much to teach us about the dynamics and possibilities of US public health policy, but it has been insufficiently studied by social scientists of the epidemic. This article draws on a large set of original interviews...

...Victor G. Rodwin Eduardo J. Gómez . Geopolitics in Health: Confronting Obesity, Aids and Tuberculosis in the Emerging BRICS Economies . Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press . 2018 . 304 pp. $34.95 paper. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019...

... groups and social movements in response to AIDS and tuberculosis in Brazil, and when and why the government eventually responded more aggressively to AIDS but not tuberculosis. Evidence from Brazil suggests that the policy influence of interest groups and social movements evolves over time and is more...

...Monika Steffen This article analyzes the path that led the European Union from a somewhat accidental involvement in fighting AIDS to a new and sustainable policy of communicable disease control. It responds to three main questions: Why did an unexpected case lead to the organization of a new...

...Graham Mooney Baldwin, Peter. Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999 . Duke University Press 2007 Peter Baldwin. Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California...

...Steven Epstein Cristiana Bastos. Global Responses to AIDS: Science in Emergency. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. 224 pp.$27.95 cloth. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Altman, Dennis. 1999 . Globalization, Political Economy, and HIV/AIDS. Theory and Society 28 (4...

...Suzanne Maman Carole A. Campbell. Women, Families, and HIV/AIDS: A Sociological Perspective on the Epidemic in America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 190 pp. $49.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Books: Review Symposium...

...Judith Sylvester Cathy J. Cohen. The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 394 pp. $18.00 paper. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Books: Review Symposium on Vulnerable...

...Joseph White Eric A. Feldman and Ronald Bayer, eds. Blood Feuds: AIDS, Blood, and the Politics of Medical Disaster. New York: Oxford University Press,1999. 375 pp. $29.95 paper. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Shilts, R. 1988 . And the Band Played On:Politics, People...