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Legal Responses to HIV and AIDS
This book examines and evaluate the ways legislators and courts have responded to the onset of the AIDS pandemic in comparative perspective.
Author(s) | By Professor James P Chalmers (University of Glasgow, UK). |
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Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Format | Paperback / softback |
Pages | 194 |
Published in | United Kingdom |
Published | 31 Oct 2008 |
Availability | Available |
This book examines and evaluate the ways legislators and courts have responded to the onset of the AIDS pandemic in comparative perspective.
1 Introduction and Overview I. Legal Rather Than Legislative Responses II. Law and the Public Health Rather than Public Health Law III. Recurring Themes A. Mainstreaming and Exceptionalism B. Path Dependence C. The Importance of Avoiding Discriminat
James Chalmers is a senior lecturer in law at the University of Edinburgh. He is a graduate of the University of Aberdeen and Tulane University, in New Orleans.