Name: Aids and Intravenous Drug Use: The Influence of Morality, Politics, Social Science, and Race in the Making of a Tragedy
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Author: M. Daniel Fernando
ISBN: 9780275942458

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Aids and Intravenous Drug Use: The Influence of Morality, Politics, Social Science, and Race in the Making of a Tragedy

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Physical Book

Publisher

Praeger

Author

M. Daniel Fernando

Year

1993

Language

English

Pages

184

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780275942458

Synopsis "Aids and Intravenous Drug Use: The Influence of Morality, Politics, Social Science, and Race in the Making of a Tragedy "

The name AIDS is an accusation. It implies punishment for sin--homosexuality and promiscuity. AIDS is a moral judgement masquerading as a scientific name, which is at the very heart of discrimination against the infected. At the bottom are drug users, victims of the War On Drugs, condemned to contract AIDS by using contaminated syringes necessitated by scarcity resulting from restrictive policies. A rational way to control HIV is to liberalize drug paraphernalia policies as in Europe. The U.S. has not taken this simple step, thus unleashing the AIDS epidemic among drug users, their sexual partners, and neonates. While this policy neglect can be understood in the context of AIDS prevention dominated by moral, political, and religious ideologies rather than epidemiological facts, there are critical racial implications. The ethnic divide separating the white researchers and the infected who belong to minorities has fuelled comparisons of AIDS with the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study and some preventive strategies have been called genocidal plots. Recent research indicating the ineffectiveness of bleach to disinfect paraphernalia has exposed the deadly consequences of a nonchalant attitude to research and compromises for political expediency.

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