Drugs into Bodies: Global AIDS Treatment Activism

Drugs into Bodies: Global AIDS Treatment Activism
by Raymond A. Smith (Author), Patricia D. Siplon (Author)

Product Details
* Hardcover: 212 pages
* Publisher: Praeger Publishers; 1 edition (March 30, 2006)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0275983250

Book Description
This activist's manual by Smith and Siplon -the title of which refers to an AIDS slogan-is divided into two parts: "Building a Domestic AIDS Treatment Activist Movement" and "Forging a Global AIDS Treatment Activist Network." The book traces the progression of the global AIDS treatment activist movement, paying special attention to the organization Health GAP. It promotes disruptive activists' tactics introduced by the protest group ACT UP, an agenda greatly facilitated by the rise of the Internet and capable of empowering the disenfranchised across national boundaries by encouraging demonstrations and confrontational politics against a profit-driven global economy and antipoor global politics. Social activists will find this book an invaluable resource. For libraries serving that audience.

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