The AIDS Bureaucracy: Why Society Failed to Meet the AIDS Crisis and How We Might Improve Our Response

by Sandra Panem

Book Overview

AIDS is unquestionably the most serious threat to public health in this century--yet how effective has the United States been in coping with this deadly disease? This sobering analysis of the first five years of the AIDS epidemic reveals the failure of traditional approaches in recognizing and managing this health emergency; it is an extremely unsettling probe into what makes the nation ill equipped to handle a crisis of the magnitude of the one...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674012712
• ISBN13: 9780674012714
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"