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AIDS: Fear and Hope

Name: AIDS: Fear and Hope
Rating: 9.1 (356 reviews)

The basic biology of the virus, HIV, and the disease it causes, AIDS. The economic, social and political factors that determine who gets sick and who remain...

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(356 reviews)

12,316 students

Created by

Richard Meisler, Ph.D.

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The basic biology of the virus, HIV, and the disease it causes, AIDS. The economic, social and political factors that determine who gets sick and who remains healthy, who lives and who dies. The progress of scientific research and medical treatments. The reasons for hope; the reasons for fear. (To get a glimpse of some of the materials that students have been posting on the course forums, go to @AIDSFAH or #AIDSFAH.)

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Richard Meisler, Ph.D. has created 1 courses that got 38 reviews which are generally positive. Richard Meisler, Ph.D. has taught 12,316 students and received a 4.83 average review out of 38 reviews. Depending on the information available, we think that Richard Meisler, Ph.D. is an instructor that you can trust.

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Richard Meisler, Ph.D.

Department of American Culture, University of Michigan

University of Michigan

Richard Meisler is a Lecturer in the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University where he specialized in philosophy of science.
Dr. Meisler teaches courses on contemporary social issues. He has studied AIDS and taught courses about the pandemic for more than a decade. His course emphasizes the scale of the damage that the disease has caused. It also focuses on the multidisciplinary complexity of understanding AIDS. One begins with the biological and medical aspects of HIV and AIDS. It is also necessary to deal with issues of economics, politics, culture, and discrimination in order to fully understand the disaster.

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