Word: brandt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brandt's joint appointment in the History and Science Department and the Medical School's Department of Social Medicine and Public Health allows him to teach both undergraduate and professional students about the values and ethics implicit in modern science and medicine, including issues of gender and sexuality, he says...
...addition, Brandt, who came to Harvard in 1982, participates in projects at the Kennedy School of Government, offering a broad socio-historical perspective to public policy studies involving issues of medicine and public health...
...Brandt brings the perspective of history to the group, says Mermin, pointing out that sexually transmitted diseases are not a purely 1980s phenomenon, but date back through the centuries...
...hysteria of war, radical measures were taken with little or no public health benefit," says Brandt, referring to the incarceration of prostitutes. "Before invoking radical measures in the AIDS epidemic, we have to know they'll work and [that] they are the least restrictive of all possible measures," Brandt says. "Maybe legislators can learn from past mistakes or successes," he adds...
Education is crucial to understanding AIDS, Brandt says. But education raises a whole new set of problems of how to teach adolescents about sexuality and homosexuality, Brandt says. Brandt is concerned "that education would say the way to avoid AIDS is not to be homosexual...