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| Chapter: Infectious Illnesses | ||
| Add View | 24 pp. | Bearman: AIDS (Essay) |
| The author in this essay examines AIDS from a global, sociological perspective and discusses its devastating impact, which is in part due to slow, ineffective government and institutional response. | ||
| Add View | 19 pp. | Weitz: AIDS and Society (Chapter) |
| The AIDS epidemic has precipitated significant changes in social life. At the same time, social factors have affected how our communities have responded to the epidemic. This chapter explores the social construction of AIDS, how that social construction has affected the AIDS epidemic, and how the epidemic is affecting society. | ||