Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis - ISBN:0807833142

Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis

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Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis
By Jennifer Brier
* Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
* Number Of Pages: 312
* Publication Date: 2009-11-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0807833142
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780807833148
Product Description:
In Infectious Ideas, Jennifer Brier convincingly argues that the AIDS epidemic had a profound effect the American political landscape. Viewing contemporary history from the perspective of the AIDS crisis, she provides rich, new understandings of the complex social and political trends of the post-1960s era.
Brier describes how AIDS workers--in groups as disparate as the gay and lesbian press, AIDS service organizations, private philanthropies, and the State Department--influenced American politics, especially on issues such as gay and lesbian rights, reproductive health, racial justice, and health care policy, even in the face of the expansion of the New Right. Indeed, the book shows that efforts to deal with AIDS produced significant fissures in the conservative movement during this period, especially when the State Department and USAID adopted AIDS as a centerpiece of its diplomatic strategy, including the distribution of millions of condoms overseas.
Infectious Ideas places recent social, cultural, and political events in a new light, making an important contribution to our understanding of the United States at the end of the twentieth century.
Summary: A History of My Generation
Rating: 4
Growing up hearing about AIDS on the nightly news, my generation missed out on the sexual freedom which my parents had experienced. But we have a different language to utilize and a different environment to utilize it in as a response of the development.
Initially and mistakenly identified as GRID (Gay Related Immune Deficiency), AIDS now permeates every demographic group in society.
A profound strength of this book is that it examines the response to the virus from an intersecting perspective. Almost as if from learning from the mistakes of the response to the virus itself, the voices of women and people of color are thoroughly intertwined throughout the text. AIDS is not merely a white man's disease.
And she includes some interesting pieces of information along for the ride. Due to my young age, I had not paid close attention to politics when Reagan was in office. I now know he was extreme, but I was honestly shocked to realize that he had people like Gary Bauer (perhaps best known for involvement with the Family Research Council) serving in his White House administration--and in social policy positions.
Such an environment probably stalled the government's effective response to the emergent AIDS crisis. I have great respect for Former Surgeon General Koop, who was able to accomplish the work he did in such a trying work environment. Fear placed presence over science in many a case.

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