Is there a health crisis?
Roy Porter, 19 May 1988
The Public Health Challenge
edited by Stephen Farrow.
Hutchinson, 160 pp., £12.95, November 1987,0 09 173165 8 Show More
edited by Stephen Farrow.
Hutchinson, 160 pp., £12.95, November 1987,
The Truth about the Aids Panic
by Michael Fitzpatrick and Don Milligan.
Junius, 68 pp., £1.95, March 1987,9780948392078 Show More
by Michael Fitzpatrick and Don Milligan.
Junius, 68 pp., £1.95, March 1987,
Dangerous Sexualities: Medico-Moral Politics in England since 1830
by Frank Mort.
Routledge, 280 pp., £7.95, October 1987,0 7102 0856 1 Show More
by Frank Mort.
Routledge, 280 pp., £7.95, October 1987,
Medicine and Labour: The Politics of a Profession
by Steve Watkins.
Lawrence and Wishart, 272 pp., £6.95, May 1987,0 85315 639 5 Show More
by Steve Watkins.
Lawrence and Wishart, 272 pp., £6.95, May 1987,
“... Are we, or are we not, in the throes of a health crisis? Read some of what is said, and it seems as though our civilisation is about to collapse in an Aids-related catastrophe, at the very moment when the National Health Service is itself suffering Government-administered euthanasia. Listen to others, and all this is made out to be so much cant, cynically orchestrated by interested parties: on the one hand, to bash the gays; on the other, to aggrandise the medical profession still further ... ”