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050 00 $aRA644.A25$bP484 1993
082 00 $a338.4/33621/96979200973$220
100 1 $aPhilipson, Tomas J.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93029122
245 10 $aPrivate choices and public health :$bthe AIDS epidemic in an economic perspective /$cTomas J. Philipson and Richard A. Posner.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c1993.
300 $ax, 264 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [227]-257) and index.
505 0 $a1. An Economic Model of Risky Sexual Behavior -- 2. Empirical Support for the Economic Approach -- 3. The Demand for HIV Testing -- 4. Social versus Fiscal Costs of AIDS -- 3. Regulatory Interventions -- 6. Subsidies Designed to Change Behavior -- 7. Subsidies for Medical Research -- 8. The Redistributive Factor in Public Policy toward AIDS -- 9. AIDS and Fertility.
520 $aLike other dangerous but pleasurable activities, such as downhill skiing and mountain climbing, engaging in unprotected sex implicitly involves the weighing of costs and benefits. Recognizing that the transmission of the AIDS virus is a consequence of personal choices - often rational and informed - to engage in risky conduct, the authors employ the tools of economic analysis to reassess the orthodox approach to AIDS by public health specialists.
520 8 $aStandard predictions of the spread of AIDS, the authors argue, are questionable because they ignore rational behavioral responses to the risk of infection. For the same reason, customary recommended public health measures, such as extensive testing for the AIDS virus, not only may be ineffective in controlling the spread of the disease but may actually cause it to spread more rapidly.
520 8 $aThe authors examine regulatory measures and proposals such as mandatory testing, criminal punishments, and immigration controls, as well as the subsidization of AIDS education and medical research, the social and fiscal costs of AIDS, the political economy of the government's response, and the interrelation of AIDS and fertility risk.
520 8 $aNeither liberal nor conservative, yet on the whole skeptical about governmental involvement in the epidemic, this book is certain to be controversial, but its injection of hard-headed economic thinking into the AIDS debate is long overdue.
520 8 $aAlthough Private Choices and Public Health is accessible to the interested general reader, it will also capture the attention of economists - especially those involved in health issues - epidemiologists, public health officials, and specialists in sexual behavior and drug addiction.
650 0 $aAIDS (Disease)$xEconomic aspects$zUnited States.
650 2 $aAcquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome$xeconomics.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000163Q000191
650 2 $aCosts and Cost Analysis.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003365
650 2 $aDisease Outbreaks.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004196
650 2 $aPublic Health.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011634
650 2 $aHealth Policy.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006291
651 2 $aUnited States.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
700 1 $aPosner, Richard A.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80037981
852 00 $boff,hsl$hRA644.A25$iP484 1993