AIDS Between Science and Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook AIDS Between Science and Politics write by Peter Piot. This book was released on 2015-05-05. AIDS Between Science and Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Peter Piot, founding executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), recounts his experience as a clinician, scientist, and activist fighting the disease from its earliest manifestation to today. The AIDS pandemic was not only catastrophic to the health of millions worldwide but also fractured international relations, global access to new technologies, and public health policies in nations across the globe. As he struggled to get ahead of the disease, Piot found science does little good when it operates independently of politics and economics, and politics is worthless if it rejects scientific evidence and respect for human rights. Piot describes how the epidemic altered global attitudes toward sexuality, the character of the doctor-patient relationship, the influence of civil society in international relations, and traditional partisan divides. AIDS thrust health into national and international politics where, he argues, it rightly belongs. The global reaction to AIDS over the past decade is the positive result of this partnership, showing what can be achieved when science, politics, and policy converge on the ground. Yet it remains a fragile achievement, and Piot warns against complacency and the consequences of reduced investments. He refuses to accept a world in which high levels of HIV infection are the norm. Instead, he explains how to continue to reduce the incidence of the disease to minute levels through both prevention and treatment, until a vaccine is discovered.
AIDS as an International Political Issue
AIDS as an International Political Issue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook AIDS as an International Political Issue write by Peter Piot. This book was released on 2014-09-02. AIDS as an International Political Issue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Peter Piot, founding executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), reports on the influence of civil society in international relations and traditional partisan divides. AIDS thrust health into national and international politics where, he argues, it rightly belongs. The global reaction to AIDS over the past decade is the positive result of this partnership, showing what can be acheved when science, politics, and policy converge on the ground. Piot describes funding mechanisms for AIDS, the first international declarations, the response of the UN system, the establishment of UNAIDS, the response of high income countries to AIDS, The Global Fund and PEPFAR as game-changers, and lessons for other health problems.
Impure Science
Impure Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Impure Science write by Steven Epstein. This book was released on 1996. Impure Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Epstein shows the extent to which AIDS research has been a social and political phenomenon and how the AIDS movement has transformed biomedical research practices through its capacity to garner credibility by novel strategies.
Impure Science
Impure Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Impure Science write by Steven Gary Epstein. This book was released on 1993. Impure Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Boundaries of Blackness
The Boundaries of Blackness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Boundaries of Blackness write by Cathy J. Cohen. This book was released on 2009-01-13. The Boundaries of Blackness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Last year, more African Americans were reported with AIDS than any other racial or ethnic group. And while African Americans make up only 13 percent of the U.S. population, they account for more than 55 percent of all newly diagnosed HIV infections. These alarming developments have caused reactions ranging from profound grief to extreme anger in African-American communities, yet the organized political reaction has remained remarkably restrained. The Boundaries of Blackness is the first full-scale exploration of the social, political, and cultural impact of AIDS on the African-American community. Informed by interviews with activists, ministers, public officials, and people with AIDS, Cathy Cohen unflinchingly brings to light how the epidemic fractured, rather than united, the black community. She traces how the disease separated blacks along different fault lines and analyzes the ensuing struggles and debates. More broadly, Cohen analyzes how other cross-cutting issues—of class, gender, and sexuality—challenge accepted ideas of who belongs in the community. Such issues, she predicts, will increasingly occupy the political agendas of black organizations and institutions and can lead to either greater inclusiveness or further divisiveness. The Boundaries of Blackness, by examining the response of a changing community to an issue laced with stigma, has much to teach us about oppression, resistance, and marginalization. It also offers valuable insight into how the politics of the African-American community—and other marginal groups—will evolve in the twenty-first century.
