AIDS in the UK: The Making of Policy, 1981-1994

ISBN-13: 9780198204732 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 408 str.

Virginia Berridge

Opis

Fifteen years ago the AIDS epidemic did not exist on the public agenda. In just over a decade the public and official response to the disease has resulted in the development of a whole network of organizations devoted to the study, containment, and practical treatment 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 public and British political and medical elites to one of the most challenging issues of this century.

Recenzje

a wide range of sources - including interviews with activists, acaemics, doctors and senior government officials - means that it casts light on a range of issues thrown up by the Aids crisis ... An admirably judicious study ... This is an important and valuable book.

O autorze

Virginia Berridge is Reader in History at the Health Promotion Sciences Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London.