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...Daniel M. Fox HIV infection is now perceived as the end stage of a chronic disease that is spreading most rapidly among blacks and Hispanics. The politics of the HIV epidemic in the 1980s were dominated by four interacting factors: fear and fascination; who had the disease and to whom it seemed...

.... Fingarette , H. 1990 . We Should Reject the Disease Concept of Alcoholism. Harvard Medical School Mental Health Letter 6 ( 8 ): 4 -6. Kuhn , T. 1962 . The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 1st ed. Chicago: University of Chicago press. Stone , D. 1984 . The Disabled State...

... esteem and lucrative grant funding to the scientists, and provided the necessary foundation for progress toward approval and production of vaccines that have since prevented numerous deaths and diseases. The latter chapters of the book describe Dr. Hayflick in the next stage of his career when...

...Stephen D. Sugarman This article offers a bold new idea for confronting the staggering level of death, injury, and disease caused by five consumer products: cigarettes, alcohol, guns, junk food, and motor vehicles. Business leaders try to frame these negative outcomes as “collateral damage...

...Beatrix Hoffman Amy L. Fairchild, Ronald Bayer, and James Colgrove. Searching Eyes: Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 342 + xxiv pp. $55.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Duke University Press 2009...

...Wendy E. Parmet The policy debate over AIDS has focused on how to balance the rights of individuals who have the disease against the rights of the public. This paper examines the nature of both sets of rights by analyzing the development of public health law and its dominant visions today...

...Elizabeth M. Armstrong; Daniel P. Carpenter; Marie Hojnacki Diseases capture public attention in varied ways and to varying degrees. In this essay, we use a unique data set that we have collected about print and broadcast media attention to seven diseases across nineteen years in order to address...

...Howard A. Palley Constance A. Nathanson. Disease Prevention as Social Change: The State, Society, and Public Health in the United States, France, Great Britain, and Canada. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2007. 328 pp. $37.50 cloth. © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007...

...Howard M. Leichter Sylvia Noble Tesh, Hidden Arguments: Political Ideology and Disease Prevention (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1988), 215 pp., $30.00. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Book Reviews 583...

...Sylvia N. Tesh Barbara Ellen Smith, Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987), 270 pp., $24.95. Peter S. Barth, The Tragedy of Black Lung: Federal Compensation for Occupational Disease (Kalamazoo, MI: W. E...

...Lars Thorup Larsen Since the 1970s public health policy has attempted to counter the rise of chronic diseases by getting individuals to make healthy choices about smoking, alcohol, diet, and physical exercise. Inspired by the so-called new perspective of the 1974 Lalonde report, this shift from...

...Scott L. Greer; Margitta Mätzke Communicable disease control might be one of the oldest and most important functions of the modern state, but it receives very little attention today. This article introduces a special issue on the Europeanization of communicable disease control politics in Europe...

...Tamara Hervey What role(s) does the European Court of Justice (ECJ) play in the Europeanization of communicable disease control? Drawing on a review of the ECJ's case law, especially but not exclusively in public health fields, from the 1950s to 2009, this article argues that the ECJ's past...

...Scott L. Greer The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) is the small agency established by the European Union (EU) to act as a hub for disease control, drawing on networks across the continent to achieve what other political systems do with large agencies. Despite...

...Wyn Grant Food and agricultural policy is an essential element of a communicable disease policy. The European Union has developed a more systematic and broadly based interest in questions of food safety and animal health and welfare linked to modernization of the Common Agricultural Policy...

...Daniel M. Fox The eight articles on the governance of communicable disease control in Europe in this issue contribute information and insight to the literature on health politics, policy, and law. Each is a carefully researched and well-argued analysis of a subject on which its authors are experts...

...Sylvia N. Tesh Conventional public health wisdom holds that the end of the nineteenth century saw a dramatic change in beliefs about what causes disease, as early convictions about the importance of broad social factors gave way to a concentration on microorganisms. I argue, however, that in both...

...: Churchill. Commentary Finding a Function for Public Health: Disease Theory or Political Philosophy? Christopher Hamlin University of Notre Dame In her essay, “Miasma...

...Graham Mooney Peter Baldwin. Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005. 478 pp. $44.95 cloth; $29.95 paper. Duke University Press 2007 Baldwin, Peter. Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930...