The AIDS Crisis: A Documentary History

by Douglas A. Feldman and Julia Wang Miller

Book Overview

AIDS has grown in just two decades from a rare disease to one that has already killed millions of men, women, and children worldwide. To help high school and college students understand the history and current status of AIDS as a social, political, psychological, public health, and cultural phenomenon, this documentary history provides 228 short and highly readable selections from primary and secondary sources of information about AIDS and HIV...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313287155
• ISBN13: 9780313287152
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Totally exhausts AIDS as a social issue

This work has fully lifted the veil on AIDS. It has focused on the various dimensions in which mankind has had to cope with a disease whose method of transmission transcends cultural barriers. The addition of a Resource Directory highlights the need for networking in today's global environment.