The AIDS Pandemic

“[The AIDS Pandemic brings] together [Gostin’s] many essays in an effort to understand past failures and future possibilities.” — The Nation

“[A] comprehensive and informative text. . . . This is an excellent resource for anyone working with or concerned about HIV and AIDS.” — CHOICE

“A comprehensive review of the social, ethical, political, and legal debates surrounding the AIDS pandemic. . . . Well organized. . . . Covers a wide range of topics. . . . Easy reading. . . . The author writes from the perspective of an insider intimately involved with the creation and evolution of AIDS policies. . . . Gostin’s public policy arguments are evidence-based. . . . The AIDS Pandemic is a well-written book that accomplishes its stated goal, to provide an extensive review of U.S. HIV/AIDS laws and policies. The book’s greatest strength is its comprehensiveness. . . . This book’s lasting value is that it depicts clearly how AIDS laws and policies have and continue to negatively impact on the lives of HIV-infected individuals.” — American Journal of Bioethics

“This is an important book at the intersection of law, human rights and public policy. With a wealth of evidence from the US and globally, Lawrence Gostin makes an incontrovertible case that good public health must be grounded in the respect for rights and dignity.” — Dr. Peter Piot, Executive Director, Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS)

“Gostin has done more than any other scholar to illuminate the legal issues concerning AIDS. What is particularly striking about the book is how well it demonstrates the complex interaction between sociopolitical forces and the law.” — New England Journal of Medicine

“Gostin has provided an account of the AIDS epidemic and its critical legal, ethical, and policy challenges that is not only learned and comprehensive but up-to-date and thought-provoking. Centrally involved himself in AIDS policy formulation over the last two decades in American and international institutions, he offers an overview that is authoritative and sensitive, and that looks beyond America to the resource-poor world where 95% of people with AIDS or HIV now live. For them, his conclusions on treatment access and other vital AIDS policy issues are profoundly important.” — Justice Edwin Cameron, Supreme Court of Appeal, South Africa

“For two decades — virtually from the outset — Lawrence Gostin has been engaged with the AIDS epidemic, bringing to bear his understanding of the relevance of law and human rights to a catastrophic event in human history. He has analyzed, commented, challenged, and provoked. In The AIDS Pandemic, his efforts are brought together and we are all the beneficiaries.” — Ronald Bayer, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

“This volume provides a thorough review of the legal and public policy issues posed during the AIDS pandemic. In addition to being America’s foremost scholar of public health law, Larry Gostin has most often been at the center of articulating these issues and providing sound practical solutions.” — Dr. James Curran, Dean of the Rollins School of Public Health, and Director of the Center for AIDS Research, Emory University

“Larry Gostin has been at the forefront of the public health and human rights movement for the past two decades. From the courtroom to the United Nations, this book provides a unique and scholarly account of the most important legal, social, and political issues posed by the AIDS pandemic in this country and abroad.” — Michael Merson, M.D., Anna M. R. Lauder Professor and Dean of Public Health, Yale University