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AIDS in the UK: The Making of a Policy, 1981-1994
By Virginia Berridge
408 pages
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- Oxford University
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- Oxford
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- 1996
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Synopsis
Fifteen years ago the AIDS epidemic did not exist on the public agenda. In just over a decade the public and official response to the disease has resulted in the development of a whole network of organizations devoted to the study, containment, and practical treatment of AIDS. In this fascinating and scholarly account, Virginia Berridge analyses a remarkable period in contemporary British history, and exposes the reaction of the British public and British political and medical elites to one of the ...
Fifteen years ago the AIDS epidemic did not exist on the public agenda. In just over a decade the public and official response to the disease has resulted in the development of a whole network of organizations devoted to the study, containment, and practical treatment of AIDS. In this fascinating and scholarly account, Virginia Berridge analyses a remarkable period in contemporary British history, and exposes the reaction of the British public and British political and medical elites to one of the most challenging issues of this century.
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Preface vii
- Contents xi
- List of Figures, Tables, and Appendices xii
- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms xiii
- Introduction: 'The History of the Present' 1
- Part 1 - 1981-1985: Policy from Below 11
- 1 - 'Aids Missionaries': Self-Help and the Initial Response to Aids 13
- 2 - 1983-1984: The 'Gift Relationship': Aids and the Blood 37
- 3 - 1985: The Liberal Response Defined 55
- Part 2 - 1986-1987: The Wartime Response 79
- 4 - 1986: The Drugs Issue. Aids Rises Up the Policy Agenda 81
- 5 - 'National Risk': The Work of the Cabinet Committee 100
- 6 - 1986-1987: 'National Community' and the 'Respectable Out' for Politicians 123
- Part 3 - 1987-1989: Normalization and Chronic Disease: The Power of Epidemiology 153
- 7 - Internationalism and Bureaucratization 155
- Title Page iii
- Preface vii
- Contents xi
- List of Figures, Tables, and Appendices xii
- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms xiii
- Introduction: 'The History of the Present' 1
- Part 1 - 1981-1985: Policy from Below 11
- 1 - 'Aids Missionaries': Self-Help and the Initial Response to Aids 13
- 2 - 1983-1984: The 'Gift Relationship': Aids and the Blood 37
- 3 - 1985: The Liberal Response Defined 55
- Part 2 - 1986-1987: The Wartime Response 79
- 4 - 1986: The Drugs Issue. Aids Rises Up the Policy Agenda 81
- 5 - 'National Risk': The Work of the Cabinet Committee 100
- 6 - 1986-1987: 'National Community' and the 'Respectable Out' for Politicians 123
- Part 3 - 1987-1989: Normalization and Chronic Disease: The Power of Epidemiology 153
- 7 - Internationalism and Bureaucratization 155
- 8 - The Chronic Disease? 182
- 9 - Changing the Consensus: Screening and Testing 209
- Part 4 - 1990-1994: The Repoliticization of AIDS 229
- 10 - Orthodoxy and 'Fringe': The Anti-Aids Alliance 231
- 11 - The Repoliticization of Aids 252
- 12 - Conclusion 280
- Notes 289
- Bibliography 342
- Index 361