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(California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public. 13.) By Peter Baldwin. 465 pp. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2005. $44.95. ISBN 0-520-24350-1.

As we approach the 25th anniversary of the first reports of the disease that would become known as AIDS, one might wonder what more there is to be written about the responses to the epidemic by Western nations. Much of the territory covered in Peter Baldwin's Disease and Democracy is familiar, having been thoroughly documented in the vast academic and popular literature on the social, political, and cultural ramifications of AIDS. But the book has several strengths — above all, its comparative international perspective — that make it a fresh and enlightening contribution.

Baldwin, a historian who has analyzed the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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