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Inventing AIDS /

Assesses the AIDS service industry that has emerged since the mid-1980s. The author analyzes the discourses of AIDS and how they influence, and often delay, public policy that determines health strategies dealing with the epidemic.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Patton, Cindy, 1956- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 1990.
Subjects:
AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects.
AIDS (Disease) > Study and teaching.
AIDS (Disease) in mass media.
Communication in medicine.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
HIV Seropositivity
Safe Sex
Communication
Public Policy
Social Control, Informal
United States
Sida > Aspect social.
Sida.
Communication.
Humans > AIDS
Online Access:Table of contents
Description
Summary:Assesses the AIDS service industry that has emerged since the mid-1980s. The author analyzes the discourses of AIDS and how they influence, and often delay, public policy that determines health strategies dealing with the epidemic.
Item Description:The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
Physical Description:ix, 176 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-171) and index.
ISBN:0415902576
9780415902571
0415902568
9780415902564