Aids, Fear and Society: Challenging the Dreaded Disease

ISBN-13: 9781560322481 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 206 str.

Kenneth J. Doka;Kenneth J. Doka

Opis

Historically, AIDS is just one of a series of dreaded diseases that have aroused both great fear and irrational actions. The previous diseases, including bubonic plague, syphilis, tuberculosis, leprosy and cancer, have evoked such a sense of dread that rational moves to halt the disease have become compromised.

Recenzje

"Doka has a clear approach as an historian/sociologist, clinician and pastor. They all come together in ways that will inform and move you off your point of stuckness to get involved." -- The Rev. Dr. Richard B. Gilbert, Resources Hotline

Spis treści

Part I Nature, History, and Responses to Dreaded Diseases; Chapter 1 Crisis and Contagion; Chapter 2 Shame and Stigma; Chapter 3 Lessons Unlearned: the Dreaded Diseases in History; Part II AIDS: The Archetype of the Dreaded Diseases; Chapter 4 The Nature and Origin of AIDS; Chapter 5 Promises and Problems: The Medical Encounter with AIDS; Chapter 6 Policies, Politics, and Public Health; Chapter 7 Aids as a Social Disease; Chapter 8 Creating a Humane Future;

O autorze

Graduate School, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York