Abstract
To explore existing tensions and seek future rapprochement between the requirements of public health policy and the realities of private sexual behavior, a study project on "AIDS: Public Health and Civil Liberties" is starting this month at the Hastings Center, Institute of Society, Ethics, and the Life Sciences, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. Carol Levine, editor of the<i>Hastings Center Report</i>and codirector of the project with Ronald Bayer, PhD, an associate for policy studies at the center, explained its unique purpose: "What differentiates our study from other attempts to look at the ethical implications for society of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is that we will make every effort to look beyond the immediate AIDS crisis and consider it in the larger perspective of the interaction of social and political forces and disease." She continues: "As an institution concerned with ethical questions, we think it's important to do this because we see AIDS as
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