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Aids and social policy

Social Policy responses to AIDS are much in accord with prevailing practice in other areas, the constructs used are typical of crime and disorder rather than illness and treatment. This article analyses the implications of this particularly as it relates to policy on prevention. It questions the value of using analytic frameworks evolved in identifying moral panics and suggest that homophibic and racist social policy responses to AIDS link with a prevailing construct of dangerousness. This argument is related to the impact of AIDS and responses to it on the distinction between the public and private world. Finally AIDS policy is located within an analysis of public expenditure and a consistent emphasis on a presentation of generosity hiding a pratice of parsimony is identified.

Critical Social Policy, Vol. 7, No. 21, 9-29 (1987)
DOI: 10.1177/026101838700702102


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