The AIDS Disaster: The Failure of Organizations in New York and the Nation

by Charles Perrow and Mauro F. Guillén

Book Overview

The seriousness, potential dimensions, and likely victims of the AIDS epidemic were known as early as 1981, yet the reaction of public and private organizations was shockingly slow and feeble and is even now woefully inadequate. Basing their analysis largely on the hardest hit city, New York, Charles Perrow and Mauro Guill n deliver a passionate, yet well-documented indictment of governmental and private groups for failing to provide the necessary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300048807
• ISBN13: 9780300048803
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"