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AIDS and the new plagues
| Summary: | Has AIDS really brought us new and different problems, if we compare it to historical epidemics, such as the plague? Based on twenty years' experience of the epidemic, as a doctor and researcher, the writer summons the «voices of the epidemic» and highlights the effect of AIDS on the relation-ship between science and health-care policies, and how it has raised new ethical issues. |
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| Main Authors: | M. Victorino, Rui M. |
| Subject: | SIDA epidemias ciência política de saúde AIDS epidemics science health-care policies . |
| Year: | 2003 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Document type: | article |
| Access type: | unknown |
| Associated institution: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| Origin: | Análise Social |
| Summary: | Has AIDS really brought us new and different problems, if we compare it to historical epidemics, such as the plague? Based on twenty years' experience of the epidemic, as a doctor and researcher, the writer summons the «voices of the epidemic» and highlights the effect of AIDS on the relation-ship between science and health-care policies, and how it has raised new ethical issues. |
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