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Aids: Implications To Society And Approaches To Control, Robert W. Sidwell
Aids: Implications To Society And Approaches To Control, Robert W. Sidwell
Faculty Honor Lectures
It is perhaps a measure of today's society that a new disease of potentially world-wide implication does not gain national or international attention until a famous person contracts it. This was particularly seen with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) when it became known that Rock Hudson of movie and TV acclaim was dying of it. By the time the celebrated pianist and entertainer Liberace died of AIDS, the various public health agencies around the world had begun to focus on the problem, and enormous sums of money were being committed toward its control. Today, more U.s. dollars are budgeted for AIDS …
On The Horns Of A Dilemma, The Uneasy Partnership Between Advocacy And Social Science, Karl R. White
On The Horns Of A Dilemma, The Uneasy Partnership Between Advocacy And Social Science, Karl R. White
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Most of us living in the United States enjoy the highest standard of living in the history of the world. Taken together, the technological, cultural, recreational, medical, and educational opportunities of our society are unsurpassed. But we also face an abundance of critical social problems. Widely quoted and seemingly accurate statistics which describe such problems include, but are not limited to the following.