Social Impact of AIDS in the United States

by Jeff Stryker, Panel on Monitoring the Social Impact of the AIDS Epidemic, Panel On Moni National Research Council, et al.

Book Overview

Europe's Black Death contributed to the rise of nation states, mercantile economies, and even the Reformation. Will the AIDS epidemic have similar dramatic effects on the social and political landscape of the twenty-first century? This readable volume looks at the impact of AIDS since its emergence and suggests its effects in the next decade, when a million or more Americans will likely die of the disease.

The Social Impact of AIDS in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309046289
• ISBN13: 9780309046282
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"