@article{11698, keywords = {Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Cholera, Emigration and Immigration, Humans, leprosy, Minority Groups, Quarantine, Substance-Related Disorders, Tuberculosis, United States, Yellow Fever}, author = {Musto D F}, title = {Quarantine and the problem of AIDS.}, abstract = {Through history, quarantine has been a response not only to the mode of disease transmission, but also to popular demands for a boundary between the kind of people so diseased and the respectable people who hope to remain healthy. Efforts to control epidemics--leprosy, cholera, tuberculosis, drug addiction--through quarantine of large numbers of people have never been successful. AIDS patients share characteristics often invoked in defense of quarantine; they do have reason to fear anachronistic and unenlightened outrage.}, year = {1986}, journal = {The Milbank quarterly}, volume = {64 Suppl 1}, pages = {97-117}, month = {1986}, issn = {0887-378X}, language = {eng}, }