AIDS in the UK
The Making of Policy, 1981-1994
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The response was a liberal one of 'safe sex' and harm minimization rather than draconian notification or isolation of carriers. The author demonstrates that despite the 'Thatcher revolution'in government in the 1980s, crisis could still stimulate a consensual response. The current period of 'normalization' of the disease sees panic levels subsiding as the rate of growth slows and the fear of the unknown recedes. Official institutions have been established and formal procedures adopted and reviewed; paid professionals have replaced the earlier volunteers. The 1990s have seen change in the liberal consensus towards a harsher response and the partial repoliticization of AIDS. In this fascinating and scholarly account, Virginia Berridge analyses a remarkable period in contemporary British history, and exposes the reaction of the British political and medical elites, and of the British public to one of the most challenging issues of this century.
This volume records the speed and nature of the public and official response to AIDS in the UK, describing how, in less than 15 years, a network of organizations developed, devoted to the study, containment and treatment of this new, critical disease.
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