Description
Among the chief themes of this book are the representation of AIDS in the mass media and in the arts, and the encouragement of a wider understanding of the personal impact of AIDS and its social experience, particularly among those social groups living with the highest levels of illness, death and mourning.;Offering a chronicle of the changing and often confusing course of the epidemic and the shifting responses to it, the author hopes to cast light on the obstacles faced by policy-makers contending with a crisis unprecedented, not least in relation to the most seriously affected social constituencies.