Empirical Science Meets Moral Panic: An Analysis of the Politics of Needle Exchange

Journal of Public Health Policy

Volumn 24, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 427-444

  Buchanan, David ^a   Shaw, Susan ^a   Ford, Amy ^a   Singer, Merrill ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANALYTIC METHOD; DECISION MAKING; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; MEDICAL ETHICS; NEEDLE; POLITICS; PUBLIC OPINION; REVIEW; SYRINGE; TECHNIQUE; UNITED STATES; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

CONSUMER ADVOCACY; HIV INFECTIONS; MASSACHUSETTS; MORALS; NEEDLE-EXCHANGE PROGRAMS; POLITICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1142274241     PISSN: 01975897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3343386     Document Type: Review

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