A Disease of Society

Cultural and Institutional Responses to AIDS
Herausgeber: Nelkin, Dorothy; Willis, David P.; Parris, Scott V.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, first published in 1991, argues that AIDS is a 'disease of society', which is challenging and changing society profoundly.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9780521404112
• ISBN-10: 0521404118
• Artikelnr.: 35450475

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments; Introduction: a disease of society: cultural and
institutional responses to AIDS Dorothy Nelkin, David P. Willis and Scott
V. Parris; Part I. Cultural Images: 1. The implicated and the immune:
responses to AIDS in the arts and popular culture Richard Goldstein; Part
II. Systems of Socialization and Control: 2. AIDS and changing concepts of
family Carol Levine; 3. AIDS and the prison system Nancy Neveloff Dubler
and Victor W. Sidel; 4. New rules for new drugs: the challenge of AIDS to
the regulatory process Harold Edgar and David J. Rothman: Part III. Systems
of Caring: 5. The culture of caring: AIDS and the nursing profession Renée
C. Fox, Linda H. Aiken and Carla M. Messikomer; 6. AIDS and its impact on
medical work: the culture and politics of the shop floor Charles L. Bosk
and Joel E. Frader; 7. AIDS volunteering: links to the past and future
prospects Suzanne C. Ouellette Kobasa; Part IV. Rights and Reciprocities:
8. AIDS and the future of reproductive freedom Ronald Bayer; 9. The
poisoned gift: AIDS and blood Thomas H. Murray; 10. AIDS and the rights of
the individual: toward a more sophisticated understanding of discrimination
Thomas B. Stoddard and Walter Rieman; Notes on contributors; Index.