Ronald Bayer was trained in political science (Ph.D.) at the University of Chicago (1976).

Current Interests

Prof. Bayer has been involved in the study of the ethics of public health, exploring the issues surrounding the HIV epidemic for almost two decades, tuberculosis policy, and tobacco. In 2002 he will embark on two new projects: an oral history of doctors and nurses confronting the AIDS epidemic in South Africa, and a history and ethics of public health surveillance. He also plans to undertake a study of the ways in which liberal democracies develop and implement childhood vaccination policies, with a special focus on the role of compulsory health measures.

Publications

Books:

Bayer, Ronald. (1981) Homosexuality and American Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnosis (New York: Basic Books).

Bayer, Ronald, A. Caplan, N. Daniels, eds. (1983). In Search of Equity: Health Needs and the Health Care System (New York: Plenum Press, 1983).

Bayer, Ronald, ed. (1988). The Health and Safety of Workers: The Politics of Professional Responsibility (New York: Oxford University Press).

Bayer, Ronald. (1989). Private Acts, Social Consequences: AIDS and the Politics of Public Health (New York: Free Press).

Kirp, David L., Ronald Bayer, eds. (1992). AIDS in the Industrialized Democracies: Passions, Politics and Policies (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press). Strategien gegen AIDS: Ein internationaler Politkvergleich (1994). (Edition Sigma, 1994).

Bayer, Ronald, Gerald Oppenheimer, eds. (1993). Confronting Drug Policy (New York: Cambridge University Press).

Feldman, Eric, Ronald Bayer, eds. (1999). Blood Feuds: AIDS, Blood, and The Politics of a Medical Disaster (New York: Oxford University Press).

Bayer, Ronald, Gerald Oppenheimer. (2000). AIDS Doctors: Voices from the Epidemic (New York: Oxford University Press).

Bayer, Ronald, and Robert Klitzman. Mortal Secrets: Truth, Secrets and Lies in the Age of AIDS. Forthcoming.