The AIDS Bureaucracy

Why Society Failed to Meet the AIDS Crisis and How We Might Improve Our Response

Sandra Panem

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ISBN 9780674012714

Publication Date: 01/01/1988

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Foreword by Samuel O. Thier, M.D.
Introduction
1. The Advent of AIDS
2. Monitoring Public Health
3. Biomedical Research Institutions
4. Delivering Health Care
5. Economics and Politics
6. Unique Elements of a Health Emergency
7. Who Is in Charge?
8. The Flow of Information within the Health Establishment
9. Communicating with the Public
10. Lessons for the Future
Appendix A. The Chronology of AIDS Research
Appendix B. U.S. Public and Private Sector Resources for Fighting AIDS
Appendix C. Interviews
Notes
Index

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