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The Social Impact of AIDS in the United States

National Academies Press eBooksPublished 1 January 1993
Albert R. Jonsen
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TL;DR

This is a report from the Panel on Monitoring the Social Impact of the AIDS Epidemic, set up in 1989 by the Committee on AIDS Research in the Social Behavioral and Statistical Sciences, and to describe how institutions have responded to the impact of the epidemic.

Abstract

This is a report from the Panel on Monitoring the Social Impact of the AIDS Epidemic set up in 1989 by the Committee on AIDS Research in the Social Behavioral and Statistical Sciences which was in turn set up in 1987 by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences. Its objective is to form a picture of the effects of the AIDS epidemic on selected social and cultural institutions in the United States and to describe how those institutions have responded to the impact of the epidemic. (EXCERPT)

Keywords

Health ProfessionsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance