Public And Professional Attitudes Toward Aids Patients

A National Dilemma
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-28463-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 430 g

This volume analyzes in considerable depth how fears, prejudices, social and moral values, and individual perceptions have affected and shaped the public, the personal, the professional, and the economic ways in which our society interacts with people suffering from HIV infections.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rogers, David E.

Ginzberg, Eli

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction -- An Overview -- Patients Beyond the Pale: A Historical View -- AIDS, the Public, and the "NIMBY" Syndrome -- Physicians' Attitudes Toward AIDS -- Nurse Attitudes and AIDS -- Removing Barriers to Health Care for People with HIV-Related Disease: A Matter of Law or Ethics? -- Hospitals in New York City: A System Under Stress -- The Economics of a Caring Approach -- HIV Infection and AIDS: Recommendations to the President-Elect -- A State Policy Perspective -- AIDS: A Long View -- Summation: Better Care for AIDS Patients -- Cornell University Medical College Fifth Conference on Health Policy

Über Autor(innen)

David E.Rogers