A Disease of Society - Cultural and Institutional Responses to AIDS

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. It explores the impact of AIDS on the arts and popular entertainment, 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. Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction Dorothy Nelkin, David P. Willis and Scott V. Parris
Part I. Cultural Images Richard Goldstein: Part II. Systems of Socialization and Control Carol Levine, Nancy Neveloff Dubler, Victor W. Sidel, Harold Edgar and David J. Rothman: Part III. Systems of Caring Rene C. Fox, Linda H. Aiken, Carla M. Messikomer, Charles L. Bosk, Joel E. Frader and Suzanne C. Ouellette Kobasa: Part IV. Rights and Reciprocities Ronald Bayer, Thomas H. Murray, Thomas B. Stoddard and Walter Rieman: Notes on contributors
Index.

Author/Editor Details
Edited by: Dorothy Nelkin, New York University
Edited by: David P. Willis, Milbank Memorial Fund
Edited by: Scott V. Parris, Milbank Memorial Fund