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1 online resource (336 pages) |
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Online access: National Academy of Sciences National Academies Press
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Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf
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| Contents |
THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF AIDS IN THE UNITED STATES -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction and Summary -- EPIDEMICS, IMPACTS, AND RESPONSES -- GENERAL FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS -- SPECIFIC FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS -- Public Health -- Health Care -- Clinical Research and Drug Regulation -- Voluntary and Community-Based Organizations -- Religion and Religious Groups -- Correctional Systems -- Public Policies on Children and Families -- New York City -- TECHNICAL NOTE -- REFERENCES -- 2 The Practice of Public Health |
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HISTORICAL APPROACHES TO DISEASE CONTROL AND EXCEPTIONALISMHIV TESTING -- REPORTING AND CONTACT TRACING -- Reporting Cases of AIDS and HIV Infection -- Partner Notification and Contact Tracing -- Confidentiality Versus the Physician's Duty to Warn -- QUARANTINE, ISOLATION, AND CRIMINAL PROSECUTION -- Use of Quarantine Statutes -- Use of Criminal Statutes -- STATE AND LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE -- Infectious Disease Epidemiology -- Clinical Services -- Planning and Financing Care -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES |
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3 Health Care Delivery and Financing THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM AS A SERVICE PROVIDER -- Challenges for Traditional Health Care Delivery -- Organization of HIV/AIDS Care -- Hospital Care -- Out-of-Hospital Care -- Connections with Community-Based Services -- THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM AS EMPLOYER -- Recruiting and Training Providers -- Physicians -- Nurses -- Confronting Occupational Risks -- HIV-Infected Practitioners and Risks to Patients -- The Burden of Caring for AIDS Patients -- The Influence of Prejudice -- Defining the Scope of Professional Obligation |
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THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM AS A MARKETHEALTH CARE FINANCING -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 4 Clinical Research and Drug Regulation -- HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE1 -- Randomized Clinical Trials -- The Food and Drug Administration and the Politics of Drug Regulation -- Protecting Human Research Subjects -- Patient Advocacy and Activism -- THE FIRST DECADE OF AIDS -- The Emergence of AZT -- The Rise of Advocacy -- The Integration of Activists in the Clinical Trials Process -- CURRENT ISSUES AND PRACTICES -- Drugs and Alternative Therapies |
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Who Performs Clinical TrialsThe Design of Clinical Trials and Access to Them -- Children -- Women -- Dissemination of Information -- Peer-Reviewed Reporting of Clinical Research -- Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications -- Science and Health Reporting in the Mass Media -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- 5 Religion and Religious Groups -- RELIGIOUS DOCTRINES AND TRADITIONS -- The Nature of Religion -- Religion in the United States -- Religion and Epidemic Disease -- SEXUALITY -- EARLY RESPONSE TO THE EPIDEMIC |
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""Official and Unofficial Response of Clergy and Lay People"" |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- United States
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AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780309583862 |
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0309583861 |
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9780309046282 |
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0309046289 |
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