Disease and Democracy: The Industrialised World Faces AIDS

doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7522.970

BMJ 2005;331:970 (22 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7522.970

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Disease and Democracy: The Industrialised World Faces AIDS

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Historians are calling Hurricane Katrina—which hit theUS Gulf coast and the Louisiana city of New Orleans at the endof August—one of the most devastating natural disastersin American history. In its immediate aftermath, the mayor ofNew Orleans, fearful that prolonged flooding and contaminatedwater would lead to dehydration, food poisoning, and the spreadof hepatitis A, cholera, and typhoid fever, issued a mandatoryevacuation order. Those who failed to leave the city voluntarilymight be forced to leave. Local, state, and national authoritieshave since been blamed for failures to respond effectively.

Peter Baldwin

University of CaliforniaPress, £29.95/$44.95, pp 478 ISBN 0 520 24350 1 www.ucpress.edu

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In Katrina's wake, Peter Baldwin's Disease and Democracy strikesa resonant chord. Baldwin analyses differing approaches to theAIDS epidemic among industrialised countries. He argues thatthe divergence in AIDS strategies in the US, Britain, Sweden,Germany, and . . . [Full text of this article]

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Jennifer Prah Ruger, assistant professor

Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA jennifer.ruger@yale.edu