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9780807828304

The AIDS Pandemic

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  • ISBN13:

    9780807828304

  • ISBN10:

    0807828300

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-02-01
  • Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

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Summary

Confronting the toughest issues surrounding AIDS in America, Gostin, an internationally recognized scholar of AIDS law and policy, confronts the most pressing and controversial issues surrounding AIDS in America and around the world.

Author Biography

Lawrence O. Gostin, professor and director of the Center for Law and the Public's Health at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities, has participated in many AIDS policymaking decisions since the beginning of the pandemic. He has devoted a career to AIDS policy and law, serving national agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, and Institute of Medicine, as well as international bodies such as the World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS. Gostin is one of the early pioneers in the movement to ensure basic human rights for persons living with HIV/AIDS

Table of Contents

Foreword xi
Michael Kirby
Preface xix
Abbreviations xxxix
Part 1. AIDS in the Courtroom
AIDS Policy, Politics, and Law in Context
3(24)
The AIDS Litigation Project: The Social Impact of AIDS
27(14)
The AIDS Litigation Project: Privacy, Discrimination, and Vulnerable Persons
41(20)
Part 2. Rights and Dignity
Human Rights and Public Health in the HIV/AIDS Pandemic
61(28)
Health Informational Privacy in the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
89(20)
Stigma, Social Risk, and Discrimination
109(24)
Part 3. Policy, Politics, and Ethics
Testing and Screening in the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: A Public Health and Human Rights Approach
133(18)
National HIV/AIDS Reporting
151(16)
Piercing the Veil of Secrecy: Partner Notification, the Right to Know, and the Duty to Warn
167(12)
The Politics of AIDS: Compulsory State Powers, Public Health, and Civil Liberties
179(22)
Part 4. Special Populations
Testing, Counseling, and Treatment after Sexual Assault
201(16)
Rights and Duties of Health Care Workers Living with HIV/AIDS
217(14)
Perinatal Transmission of HIV: Controversies in Screening and Policy
231(16)
The Interconnected Epidemics of AIDS and Drug Dependency
247(32)
Part 5. AIDS in the World
Screening and Exclusion of Travelers and Immigrants
279(10)
The Global Reach of HIV/AIDS: Science, Politics, Economics, and Research
289(30)
AIDS Policy, Politics, and Law: Reflections on the Pandemic
319(8)
Notes 327(88)
Selected Bibliography 415(16)
Index of Cases 431(2)
General Index 433

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