AIDS in Industrialized Democracies : : Passions, Politics, and Policies / / ed. by David L. Kirp, Ronald Bayer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Albaek, Erik,; Ballard, John,; Bayer, Ronald,; Feldman, Eric A.,; Frankenberg, Guenter,; Henriksson, Benny,; Kirp, David L.,; Lindquist, Evert A.,; Mann, Jonathan M.,; Miguel, Jesús M. de,; Rayside, David M.,; Rirp, David L.,; Steffen, Monika,; Street, John,; Weale, Albert,; Wijngaarden, Jan K. van,; Yonemoto, Shohei,; Ytterberg, Hasse,
• HerausgeberIn: Bayer, Ronald,; Kirp, David L.,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [1992]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 1992
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.)

In the ten years since the first cases of AIDS were reported, the disease has spread around the world. Every country has had to come up with policies suited to its own conditions, economy, culture, and institutions. The differences among their approaches are striking. This volume, the first internat...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Tables and Figures
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction. An Epidemic in Political and Policy Perspective
• Chapter 1 The United States: At the Center of the Storm
• Chapter 2 Canada: Community Activism, Federalism, and the New Politics of Disease
• Chapter 3 Germany: The Uneasy Triumph of Pragmatism
• Chapter 4 Australia: Participation and Innovation in a Federal System
• Chapter 5 Spain: An Epidemic of Denial
• Chapter 6 Britain: Policy-making in a Hermetically Sealed System
• Chapter 7 France: Social Solidarity and Scientific Expertise
• Chapter 8 The Netherlands: AIDS in a Consensual Society
• Chapter 9 Denmark: AIDS and the Political "Pink Triangle"
• Chapter 10 Sweden: The Power of the Moral(istic) Left
• Chapter 11 Japan: AIDS as a "Non-issue"
• Conclusion The Second Decade of AIDS: The End of Exceptionalism?
• List of Contributors
• Index