Aids and the Policy Struggle in the United States

Informationen zum Autor Patricia D. Siplon has written extensively on HIV/AIDS! politics! and public policy! and is currently assistant professor in the Political Science Department! Saint Michael's College! Colchester! Vermont. Klappentext This is a comprehensive analysis of the dynamic and complex problem of AIDS policymaking. Siplon analyzes the five major AIDS policy areas--medical treatment! blood policy! transmission prevention! social services delivery and AIDS-based foreign policy--and the policy issues: definition (right vs. commodity)! regulation! competing values! distributive policy! and membership in groups awarded resources. The complexity of AIDS policymaking is such that each policy creates a new problem. Zusammenfassung Looks at how medical treatments of AIDS have changed and grown; how blood policies were formed; how value-based debates raged and continue to rage over prevention; how communities developed to first respond to the crisis! and later organized to fight for health care; and! how foreign policy is being shaped. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The Nature of the Policy Process 2. New Drugs! New Rules! New Relationships 3. Blood Policy in the Age of AIDS 4. Dueling Models of AIDS Prevention: Harm Reduction and Abstinence 5. A New Means of Providing for the Sick: The Ryan White CARE Act 6. Us and Them: AIDS as a Foreign Policy Issue 7. Conclusion: Struggling Toward the Future

Product details

• Authors: Patricia D. Siplon, Siplon Patricia D.
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.08.2002
• EAN: 9780878403783
• ISBN: 978-0-87840-378-3
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, United States of America, USA, Central / national / federal government policies, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Central government policies, Hiv / Aids: Social Aspects