Anticipating the social consequences of AIDS: A position paper |
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Authors: | Richard A Berk Alice S Rossi Nancy Stoller Shaw Karolynn Siegel PhD |
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Institution: | (1) the Department of Sociology, Haines Hall, UCLA, 90024 Los Angeles, CA;(2) the Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, 01003 Amherst, MA;(3) Board of Community Studies, University of California, 95064 Santa Cruz, CA;(4) the Department of Social Work, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York |
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Abstract: | Even conservative estimates of the future course of AIDS epidemic make clear that only a small fraction of people who ultimately
will experience AIDS symptoms now have them and that the spread of the virus will continue for some time to come. This article
focuses on the social consequences of the AIDS epidemic, some of which are beginning to be felt. I argue that sociologists
have an important contribution to make anticipating the long range social consequences of AIDS. Intelligent planning is impossible
without a reduction of uncertainty in what the future might hold.
He currently is chair of the Methodology section of the American Sociological Association and vice-chair of the Board of the
Directors of the Social Science Research Council.
with research interests in gender, kinship, and biosocial science. Her concern for the AIDS epidemic flows from its being
a major focus in an interdisciplinary course on human sexuality that she teaches.
For the past two years at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, she has coordinated AIDS prevention programs for women and supervised
the development of educational materials.
For the past three years she has been actively involved in AIDS-related research. |
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