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AIDS in the UK [electronic resource] : the making of a policy, 1981-1994 / Virginia Berridge

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Berridge, Virginia
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1996.
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1 online resource (xiv, 389 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: Introduction: The 'History of the Present' -- Pt. 1 1981-1985: Policy from Below -- 1.'AIDS Missionaries': Self-Help and the Initial Response to AIDS -- 2.1983-1984: The 'Gift Relationship': AIDS and the Blood -- 3.1985: The Liberal Response Defined -- Pt. 2 1986-1987: The Wartime Response -- 4.1986: The Drugs Issue: AIDS Rises up the Policy Agenda -- 5.'National Risk': The Work of the Cabinet Committee -- 6.1986-1987: 'National Community' and the 'Respectable Out' for Politicians -- Pt. 3 1987-1989: Normalization and Chronic Disease: The Power of Epidemiology -- 7.Internationalism and Bureaucratization -- 8.The Chronic Disease? -- 9.Changing the Consensus: Screening and Testing -- Pt. 4 1990-1994: The Repoliticization of AIDS -- 10.Orthodoxy and 'Fringe': The Anti-AIDS Alliance -- 11.The Repoliticization of AIDS -- 12.Conclusion.
Summary
Fifteen years ago the AIDS 'epidemic' did not exist on the public agenda, but as a result of public response to the disease a network of organisations devoted to the study, containment and practical treatment of AIDS has been established.
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9780191676376 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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