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Peter Baldwin, Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS.

Publication: Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Publication Date: 01-DEC-06 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: Peter Baldwin, Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS.(Book review)

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Peter Baldwin, Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005. $44.95 hardcover.

Peter Baldwin suggests that responses to public health challenges today are largely shaped by past experiences. He illustrates this theory by examining current public health responses to the AIDS pandemic. He poses three major arguments: First, that responses to the AIDS pandemic have been remarkably diverse; second, that industrialized liberal democracies were markedly more interventionist than others favoring communal rather than individual rights; and third, that the intervention approaches chosen broadly correspond to the prevention tactics used during the nineteenth century when dealing with earlier contagious epidemics. The public health spectrum of interventions...

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