1st Edition
AIDS, Fear and Society Challenging the Dreaded Disease
By Kenneth J. Doka
Copyright 1997
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
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Historically, AIDS is just one of a series of dreaded diseases that have aroused both great fear and irrational actions. The previous diseases, including bubonic plague, syphilis, tuberculosis, leprosy and cancer, have evoked such a sense of dread that rational moves to halt the disease have become compromised.; This text examines the deep sense of fear that AIDS evokes, stigmatizing those who... Read more
Part I Nature, History, and Responses to Dreaded Diseases; Chapter 1 Crisis and Contagion; Chapter 2 Shame and Stigma; Chapter 3 Lessons Unlearned: the Dreaded Diseases in History; Part II AIDS: The Archetype of the Dreaded Diseases; Chapter 4 The Nature and Origin of AIDS; Chapter 5 Promises and Problems: The Medical Encounter with AIDS; Chapter 6 Policies, Politics, and Public Health; Chapter 7 Aids as a Social Disease; Chapter 8 Creating a Humane Future;
Biography
Graduate School, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York
"Doka has a clear approach as an historian/sociologist, clinician and pastor. They all come together in ways that will inform and move you off your point of stuckness to get involved." -- The Rev. Dr. Richard B. Gilbert, Resources Hotline
