The impact of AIDS cannot be adequately measured by epidemiology alone. As the editors of this volume argue, AIDS must be understood as a "disease of society," which is challenging and changing society profoundly. Numerous books on AIDS have looked at the ways in which our social institutions, norms and values have determined how the disease has been dealt with, but this book examines the ways in which AIDS is, in turn, changing our social institutions, norms and values. Eleven chapters explore the impact of AIDS on the arts and popular entertainment, the effects of the disease on our concept of family, on government and legal institutions and on the health services, and the ways in which AIDS is forcing society to come to terms with longstanding tensions between community values and individual rights. The authors are drawn from a broad range of disciplines, bringing to the book the insights of sociology, law, public health, philosophy, political science, psychology, journalism and medicine. This book provides the first assessment of the impact of AIDS on American life from such a diverse set of perspectives, and it will be of interest to anyone concerned with the effect of the disease on our society. Earlier versions of some of these articles have appeared in The Milbank Quarterly and have since been substantially revised.
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"A strength of this volume is its attention to the role of activists in influencing positive change in institutions...overall, the volume provides important information about the social context of HIV." Ethics
"Thought-provoking and clear (and extremely well documented), this collection raises important questions that will become more relevant as society grapples with the effects of a new and terrible disease. Essential for social science and medical collections." Library Journal
"This book powerfully illluminates the way in which AIDS has shifted our perceptions of contemporary issues, from our attitudes to risk, sex and the family to the role of the nursing profession and the rights of prisoners...it is essentional reading." Rudolph Klein, University of Bath
"Thoughtful, disturbing, and beautifully written, A Disease of Society forces the reader to see AIDS as a social phenomenon with widespread effects on the way Americans think and act." Rosemary Stevens, University of Pennsylvania
"A rare publication. It is a superbly edited volume dealing with critical, yet often neglected, social and cultural issues related to the AIDS epidemic. This is an extremely valuable book that should be read by all those with an interest in AIDS as well as by those with a broader interest in American society." Philip R. Lee, University of California, San Francisco
"If society has not managed the AIDS crisis very well, how has AIDS affected society? Nelkin, Willis, and Parris have collected a series of high-quality essays--originally published in supplements to The Milbank Quarterly--that focus directly and indirectly on this issue." Peter Conrad, Science
"These essays...are provocative. For that reason, A Disease of Society can be recommended to anyone wishing to develop a broad view of what may be happening in the United States because of AIDS." Andrew M. Weisenthal, The New England Journal of Medicine
"...the articles are lucidly written and state their arguments forcefully." Choice
"This collection of essays represents a benchmark in the growing literature on AIDS...The Nelkin et al. volume is unique and timely because it occasions an examinaton of the reverse process --that is, the impact AIDS has had on various social institutions." Joseph A. Kotarba, University of Houston, Contemporary Sociology
"...a gem. Overall the essays it contains are remarkable for their content, their clarity, and their eloquence....These editors and contributors are to be commended for their forthrightness in producing a book with thought-provoking essays and insights enlightening to both student and citizen, and to members of the hospice community." Inge B. Corless, The Hospice Journal
"Thought-provoking and clear (and extremely well documented), this collection raises important questions that will become more relevant as society grapples with the effects of a new and terrible disease. Essential for social science and medical collections." Library Journal
"This book powerfully illluminates the way in which AIDS has shifted our perceptions of contemporary issues, from our attitudes to risk, sex and the family to the role of the nursing profession and the rights of prisoners...it is essentional reading." Rudolph Klein, University of Bath
"Thoughtful, disturbing, and beautifully written, A Disease of Society forces the reader to see AIDS as a social phenomenon with widespread effects on the way Americans think and act." Rosemary Stevens, University of Pennsylvania
"A rare publication. It is a superbly edited volume dealing with critical, yet often neglected, social and cultural issues related to the AIDS epidemic. This is an extremely valuable book that should be read by all those with an interest in AIDS as well as by those with a broader interest in American society." Philip R. Lee, University of California, San Francisco
"If society has not managed the AIDS crisis very well, how has AIDS affected society? Nelkin, Willis, and Parris have collected a series of high-quality essays--originally published in supplements to The Milbank Quarterly--that focus directly and indirectly on this issue." Peter Conrad, Science
"These essays...are provocative. For that reason, A Disease of Society can be recommended to anyone wishing to develop a broad view of what may be happening in the United States because of AIDS." Andrew M. Weisenthal, The New England Journal of Medicine
"...the articles are lucidly written and state their arguments forcefully." Choice
"This collection of essays represents a benchmark in the growing literature on AIDS...The Nelkin et al. volume is unique and timely because it occasions an examinaton of the reverse process --that is, the impact AIDS has had on various social institutions." Joseph A. Kotarba, University of Houston, Contemporary Sociology
"...a gem. Overall the essays it contains are remarkable for their content, their clarity, and their eloquence....These editors and contributors are to be commended for their forthrightness in producing a book with thought-provoking essays and insights enlightening to both student and citizen, and to members of the hospice community." Inge B. Corless, The Hospice Journal
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Eleven chapters explore the impact of AIDS on American life from many perspectives, ranging from the world of entertainment to that of the family. They reveal the ways in which the disease is dramatically altering our social institutions, norms, and values.
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WHEN AIDS FIRST PENETRATED AMERICAN consciousness back in 1981, few cultural critics were prepared to predict that this epidemic would have a broad and deep impact on the arts. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
drug lag, intermediate review, directed donations, nondirective counseling, poisoned gift, investigational drugs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Supreme Court, Journal of the American Medical Association, San Francisco, Federal Register, World War, Gay Men's Health Crisis, Larry Kramer, Los Angeles, Code of Federal Regulations, Free Press, West Supp, Code Annotated, Harvard University Press, Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, New American Library, New Jersey, Public Health Service, The Normal Heart, Annals of Internal Medicine, Board of Education, Second Son New!
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- The Normal Heart: A Play (Plume) by Larry Kramer on 5 pages
- Second Son by Ferro on page 18, page 30, and page 40
- As Is: A Play by William M. Hoffman on page 18, page 31, and page 40
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy on page 46, and page 70
- The House of God: The Classic Novel of Life and Death in an American Hospital by Samuel Shem on page 156, and page 171
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- AIDS and Contemporary History (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine) by Virginia Berridge in Front Matter, and page 33
- AIDS in the UK: The Making of Policy, 1981-1994 by Virginia Berridge in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The AIDS Crisis and the Modern Self: Biographical Self-Construction in the Awareness of Finitude (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine) by S. Rinken in Back Matter
- Medicine, the Market and the Mass Media: Producing Health in the Twentieth Century (Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine) by Virginia Berridge on page 214
- Blood Feuds: AIDS, Blood, and the Politics of Medical Disaster by Eric Feldman on page 53
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