Legal Advocacy as a Means of Defining Social Policy: Arguing School Admissions for Children with AIDS.

Harney, Diane M.

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ERIC Number: EJ419850

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Publication Date: 1990

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Legal Advocacy as a Means of Defining Social Policy: Arguing School Admissions for Children with AIDS.

Harney, Diane M.

Communication Research, v17 n6 p827-41 Dec 1990

Illustrates how law functions to affect social policy by examining legal efforts to define issue of admission to school or exclusion from school of children infected with AIDS virus. Examines definitions of the problem and potential solutions presented in legal media. Describes role of legal media for legal community, which has ability to effect policy. (SR)

Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Admission (School), Child Health, Children, Communication Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Laws, Lawyers, Public Policy, Public Schools

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Note: Special Issue: Communication and the AIDS Crisis.