Saul, Jessie Elizabeth (Author)
This project is an examination of the ways that the events leading up to the contamination were framed in different ways, resulting in divergent trajectories of scientific investigation, political problem solving, policy change, moral judgments, and responses to legal claims. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, blood supplies around the world became infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Thousands of people contracted the virus through their use of blood and blood products, primarily people with hemophilia and recipients of blood transfusions. The contamination, and the role of government officials in the contamination, evolved into a national scandal in France, culminating in the trial and conviction of four government and health officials, the payment of both people with hemophilia and transfusion recipients who had contracted HIV with government funds, and a change in the constitution that allowed the former Prime Minister, Minister of Health, and Minister of Social Affairs to be tried in court for actions they committed while in office. Public framing of the contamination in the United States was that of a public health tragedy. In conducting my research, I collected and analyzed print and television media coverage of the AIDS crisis, and the resulting political crisis surrounding the government's role in the contamination of the blood supply several years later. In addition, I conducted interviews with approximately 100 people with hemophilia, hemophilia organization leaders, regulatory agencies, legislators, journalists, lawyers, and scientists. To these primary materials I added textual resources such as legislative hearings, bills, acts and laws, personal correspondence, memoirs, hemophilia organization newsletters, affidavits, and courtroom testimony. This project concludes that framing processes depend on cultural values more so than institutional and political structures. In France the value was solidarity, and in the United States the value was individualism. In addition, the way events are framed influences the distribution of responsibility and the types of solutions that will be perceived as appropriate by the public. Finally, because framing involves social norms and is a dynamic process, an analysis of framing processes is an effective way to study social change and the strengthening of social norms.
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