NCJ Number
121375
Editor(s)
O Trager
Date Published
1988
Length
218 pages
Annotation
This compilation of newspaper and journal editorials focuses on the AIDS crisis and its implications for all sectors of American society.
Abstract
AIDS poses new issues for the educational system, the legal system, health care, insurance companies, broadcasting companies, hospitals, the medical establishment, and the Federal Government. As the incidence of AIDS increases, media coverage of the disease also escalates. The editorials broadly focus on AIDS research and the public health response, AIDS and the Reagan Administration response, problems and issues with AIDS in schools, AIDS and the law, and AIDS and American lifestyles. More specific editorial topics address blood transfusions, the infection of health workers, AIDS in prisons, AIDS testing in the military, immigrant AIDS testing, insurance company responses to AIDS, Supreme Court rulings, guidelines of the American Medical Association, AIDS and narcotics addicts, and the use of condoms.