AIDS in the UK: The Making of Policy, 1981-1994

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Fifteen years ago the AIDS epidemic did not exist on the public agenda. In just over a decade the public and official response to the disease has resulted in the development of a whole network of organizations devoted to the study, containment, and practical treatment of AIDS. In this fascinating and scholarly account, Virginia Berridge analyses a remarkable period in contemporary British history, and exposes the reaction of the British public and British political and medical elites to one of the most challenging issues of this century. Dedication Preface Contents List of Figures, Tables, and Appendices List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction: The ‘History of the Present’ Part 1: 1981–1985: Policy from Below 1. ‘AIDS Missionaries’: Self-Help and the Initial Response to AIDS 2. 1983–1984: The ‘Gift Relationship’: AIDS and the Blood 3. 1985: The Liberal Response Defined Part 2: 1986–1987: The Wartime Response 4. 1986: The Drugs Issue: AIDS Rises up the Policy Agenda 5. ‘National Risk’: The Work of the Cabinet Committee 6. 1986–1987: ‘National Community’ and the ‘Respectable Out’ for Politicians Part 3: 1987–1989: Nonnalization and Chronic Disease: The Power of Epidemiology 7. Internationalism and Bureaucratization 8. The Chronic Disease? 9. Changing the Consensus: Screening and Testing Part 4: 1990–1994: The Repoliticization of AIDS 10. Orthodoxy and ‘Fringe’: The Anti-AIDS Alliance 1 1. The Repoliticization of AIDS 12. Conclusion Notes Appendices Bibliography Index