NCJ Number
107949
Editor(s)
H L Dalton,
S Burris
Date Published
1987
Length
382 pages
Annotation
In discussing law and legal issues pertaining to the social response to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), this book groups papers under the following topics: medical background, government responses to AIDS, private sector responses to AIDS, AIDS and health care, AIDS in institutions, and the problems of special groups in confronting AIDS.
Abstract
Papers on the medical background of AIDS discuss the discovery of AIDS as a new disease epidemic, its transmission, and a historical perspective. Discussions of government responses to AIDS consider traditional public health strategies, policies toward school children with AIDS, prostitution as a public health issue, and education as prevention. Private sector responses to AIDS encompass AIDS in the workplace, screening employees for AIDS, housing issues, and private lawsuits involving AIDS. Papers on AIDS and health care examine the right to medical treatment, insurance, confidentiality in the doctor-patient relationship, and the conflict of medical and legal cultures in addressing AIDS issues. After discussing the institutional problems of AIDS in the military and in prisons, the AIDS problems of special groups focus on intravenous drug abusers, the black community, and the lesbian and gay community. Chapter notes, a glossary, a subject index, and a 180-item selected bibliography.