Wednesday, June 11, 2014

US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 12, AIDS in America (Con't)

AIDS demonstrates how economics and politics cannot be separated from disease; indeed, those forces shape our response in powerful ways.... AIDS will be a standard by which we may measure not only our medical and scientific skill but also our capacity for justice and compassion.

—Alan M. Brandt, 1986
Introduction to (and explanation of) this quote series can be found here.  Read this tag to see all of them.

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