AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 4 (1989): 233-46
Arthur S. Leonard
This bibliography lists articles on legal aspects of the AIDS epidemic in academic law reviews, bar journals, legal newspapers, and some books published between January 1988 and August 23, 1989.
AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 4 (1989): 229-32
David K. Nelson
During the first half of 1989, the public news media carried several stories about a variety of concepts known as living benefits for persons with AIDS or terminal illnesses. The phrase living benefits is being applied to three different concepts, and it is my intention here to touch briefly on all three, to discuss th
AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 4 (1989): 224-28
Richard Seltzer and Carolyn Stroman
The study reported here was designed to increase our understanding of those special circumstances under which question-order effects are likely to occur. In this research we examined how responses to questions about AIDS might be affected by question order. Previous surveys that have focused on AIDS have analyzed both
AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 4 (1989): 218-23
William E. McAuliffe, Paul Breer, and Susan Doering
This paper presents data from a quasi-experimental evaluation of the effectiveness of an outreach program that featured only education and referral. The program was the Street Outreach AIDS Prevention (SOAP) program in Baltimore. The state-funded evaluation ran from February to December 1986, with five months for the i
AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 4 (1989): 206-11
James T. Dimas and Jordan H. Richland
This article describes the two basic partner notification models, discusses misconceptions about partner notification, and summarizes the results of a study concerning those misconceptions. Finally, the partner notification recommendations of three national public health organizations are presented.
AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 4 (1989): 193-205
David C. Wyld and David E. Hallock
The role of social marketing is to promote safe behavior and to minimize risky behavior. This is accomplished by encouraging behaviors that minimize or eliminate the chance of transmitting the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), while concomitantly aiming to reduce or eliminate behavior that increases the likelihood of
AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 4 (1989): 183-92
Michael R. Ragan
The author describes AIDS dementia complex (ADC), and its implications for patients including informed consent, risk assessment, and the possibility of a defense for criminal action by virtue of incompetence based on ADC.
AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 3 (1989): 175-182
Kathleen S. Andersen and Emily H. Thomas
These reviews of current studies on policy issues concerning AIDS are prepared quarterly for this journal by the Center for Assessing Health Service, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Each review includes a brief introduction to a selected policy area, a summary of research and policy issues related to that
AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 3 (1989): 171-174
David K. Nelson
I have chosen this somewhat provocative title because, as this is written, all of the prohibitions on the use of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody testing in life insurance underwriting have either been or are about to be repealed. The purpose of this article is to summarize, in a purely personal, anecdotal m
AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 3 (1989): 168-170
Carol Ledbetter and Don Johnson
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the readability of Understanding AIDS, which was sent to every postal customer between May 26 and June 15, 1988. This is a follow-up study to research conducted by Ledbetter and Johnson, who investigated the readability of three widely disseminated AIDS pamphlets writ
AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 3 (1989): 164-167
P.A. Kawata and John-Manuel Andriote
Given the general shortage of government funding for health care delivery and social services, AIDS service organizations have come to the forefront in the communities hardest hit by AIDS to provide the education needed to prevent the further spread of HIV, raise funds for a full-scale assault on the epidemic, and prov
AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 3 (1989): 159-163
Robert L. Ohsfeldt and Stephen Gohmann
By examining several correlated of AIDS-related state insurance regulations, we have found that political liberalism and religious fundamentalism, two indicators of societal attitudes toward persons with AIDS, are strongly associated with the promulgation of AIDs-related health insurance regulations within a state. Som
AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 3 (1989): 152-158
Ronald L. Caplan, Michael Greenberg, and Paul Landsbergis
The AIDS epidemic has placed a significant responsibility on the business community to respond with workplace policies that are humane, fair, scientifically based, and legally sound. These policies should address legal issues such as antibody testing, discrimination, and confidentiality; treatment issues such as health
AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 3 (1989): 142-151
Council on Scientific Affairs, American Medical Association
This report, by the Council on Scientific Affairs of the American Medical Association , provides an overview of the means available to reduce the spread of HIV among IVDUs and presents recommendations for future action.
AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 3 (1989): 133-141
Richard L. North and Karen H. Rothenberg
In this article, we conclude that the tensions that are seen as surrounding the duty to warn dilemma really do not exist and that legislation is not warranted. Rather, we suggest that confidentiality, while highly valued, is not a sacrosanct principle. Public health strategies to control the spread of HIV infection are
An AIDS prevention strategy based on the promotion of self-interested behavior will be only partially effective because sexual behavior is not governed by self-interest alone. It is true that sex is a private activity that initially appears unrelated to civic behavior. Moreover, people do engage in sexual activity for
AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 2 (1989): 125-130
Alvin Novick
Bioethicists have addressed many of the considerations related to clinical trials with oppressed or vulnerable populations, including racial and ethnic minority group members, the profoundly or terminally ill, prisoners, retarded or otherwise incompetent persons, third world subjects, and the indigent. Generally, these
AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 2 (1989): 120-124
Agnes H. Donahue, Mary Ann Danello, and Ruth L. Kirschstein
The U.S. Public Health Service Coordinating Committee on Women s Health Issues has recognized the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to the development of policies and programs for women with and at risk for AIDS. The resources for preventing and treating AIDS must be drawn from diverse areas, and locating such
AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 2 (1989): 112-119
Bernard C. Kinnick et al.
Very few AIDS studies have focused on sexually active heterosexuals. In a survey conducted by the Psychology Department at California State University at Long Beach, 71 percent of the students thought that they knew enough about AIDS to avoid infection. Students at a large midwestern university had high levels of AIDS-
AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 2 (1989): 106-111
Vicky L. Carwein and Clarence G. Ray
In 1987, the authors conducted the first study of AIDS-related income losses and their impact on the economy of the U.S. Past and future lost income was calculated for the entire population of AIDS cases reported in Nevada between 1982 and December 31, 1986. Sixty-five of the 69 AIDS patients had participated in the wo
AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 2 (1989): 101-105
Douglas Longshore
This article, based on work by the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO), offers a synthesis of the lessons learned from AIDS prevention campaigns and from previous public health efforts. In 1988, GAO staff members reviewed the existing literature on AIDS and public health education and conducted on-site analyses of AID
AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 2 (1989): 92-100
Melinda Moore et al.
This article presents an overview of California s AIDS education and prevention program evaluation, with particular emphasis on the 1987-1988 program year.
AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 2 (1989): 83-91
David J. Ahlgren, Benjamin F. Lewis, and Alex C. Stein
As the AIDS epidemic among IVDUs becomes the principal focus of public health and drug treatment intervention, a variety of epidemiologic, ethnographic, and modeling approaches will have to be developed, operationalized, integrated, and evaluated. The development of our model and its application to a moderately sized A
AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 2 (1989): 75-82
Maura O'Brien
Arguments for an against the exchange of sterile needles and syringes, one of the most controversial AIDS-related public health programs, will be examined here, with a particular focus on the ethical issues raised by these programs. For the purposes of discussion, these proposals will be referred to as needle exchange
AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 1 (1989): 68-73
Kathleen S. Andersen and Emily H. Thomas
These reviews of current studies on policy issues related to AIDS are prepared quarterly for this journal by the Center for Assessing Health Services, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Each review includes a brief introduction to a selected policy area, a summary of research and policy issues related to that
AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 1 (1989): 56-67
Jim D. Hughey, Robert W. Norton, and C. Sullivan-Norton
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how news story metaphors can be used to chart changes in the meaning of AIDS. More than 3,200 news stories about AIDS from four wire services were examined for their metaphoric content immediately before and after the announcement that Rock Hudson had AIDS. Three hundred AIDS
AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 1 (1989): 51-55
Bernadette Matthews and Juni Bowes
In a unique, cooperative arrangement with the New Orleans AIDS Project, the New Orleans AIDS Task Force has worked to establish a number of support groups to meet the common needs of people who have been touched by AIDS and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. The group brought together for this study was desi
AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 1 (1989): 40-50
Rebecca J. Welch Cline
The purpose of this essay is to review that literature in order to identify and clarify the destructive effects of communicative patterns that AIDS patients and their supporters and survivors are likely to encounter. Their transactions with friends, family, health care providers, and the general public are more likely
This paper investigates the role of social support primarily as it affects members of the gay community. After identifying the strategies in place for assessing social support, this analysis will explore the role of communication in helping persons with AIDS to adjust to threatening events.
AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 1 (1989): 20-30
Kurt Neuwirth and Sharon Dunwoody
As with many diseases for which there is neither treatment nor cure, AIDS promises to be a major health concern for decades, perhaps generations. If the mass media function as channels for AIDS information, it becomes important to ask how those channels are being used by individuals, because, from a receiver-based pers
AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 1 (1989): 10-19
Sheryl Perlmutter Bowen and Paula Michael-Johnson
In this paper, we (1) describe the assumptions that can be made concerning the role of talk about sensitive relationship issues among intimates; (2) describe how college students talk about AIDS in romantic relationships; (3) present the reasons they give for not talking about AIDS in their relationships; and (4) ident
Timothy Edgar, Sharon Lee Hammond, and Vicki S. Freimuth
In this essay, we, as communication researchers, argue that the causal chain that occurs between exposure to messages and behavior modification is much too complex to support this assumption. Flay and associates, for instance, describe the relationship between exposure and behavior change as a series of steps: (1) expo
Americans seem to be waiting for medical research laboratories to produce a vaccine that will allow us to better manage the AIDS virus epidemic. While the development of a vaccine is not implausible, there is an urgent need, in the interim, for researchers to document the personal and social impact of the epidemic. In
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