Aids: Social Aspects
"Aids and Accusation"Haiti and the Geography of Blame
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Does the scientific theory that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence? Addressing the question, this is an ethnographic study of AIDS in a poor society. New ed. Paperback, 372 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 556g.
Author: Farmer, Paul
ISBN: 0520248392
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
Date: 2006 (United States)
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"Aids in Latin America"Sex, Class and Power
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Features many interviews with people who have the disease, activists, government leaders, church leadership - all speak out in telling the story of how the epidemic has developed in their countries. The interviews and stories, which make up this book, are intermixed with the set of epidemic statistics from the continent. Hardback, 256 pages. Size: 246 x 189 mm. Weight: 519g.
Author: Frasca, Timothy
ISBN: 1403969442
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Date: 2005 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Aids: Social Aspects
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"An Assessment of Services Provided to Children Affected and Infected By Hiv/Aids in Windhoek, Namibia"
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Paperback, 87 pages. Size: 247 x 189 mm. Weight: 175g.
Author: Hayden, Jacqueline Haihambo, Cynthy
ISBN: 9991667059
Publisher: University of Namibia
Date: 2004 (Namibia)
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"Aids in America"
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Exposes the ways in which the US shamefully resembles a developing country, and many fronts on which the government has failed to control the spread of AIDS. This book questions, why do these conditions exist and what must the US do to change them? With illustrations. Hardback, 240 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 788g.
Author: Hunter, Susan
ISBN: 1403971994
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Aids: Social Aspects
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"Aids in Asia"A Continent in Peril
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The spread of AIDS in Asia is accelerating so quickly it will soon overtake growth of the disease in Africa. Over the next two decades, so containment of Asia's epidemics will be decisive to global stability because the region is home to 60 per cent of the world's population. Hardback, 256 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 123g.
Author: Hunter, Susan
ISBN: 1403967741
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Date: 2005 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Aids: Social Aspects
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"Who Cares?"Aids in Africa
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Susan Hunter illuminates the history and social dynamics of the AIDS pandemic through focusing on Africa. She combines personal stories from her 20 years of work in Africa with analysis of the raging debates on the topic (Mbeki's continued assertions that HIV does not cause AIDS), and more. Paperback, 272 pages. Size: 234 x 138 mm. Weight: 363g.
Author: Hunter, Susan
ISBN: 1403936153
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Date: 2003 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Aids: Social Aspects
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"Eating Spring Rice"The Cultural Politics of Aids in Southwest China
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An ethnographic study of HIV/AIDS in China. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic research (1995-2005), primarily in Yunnan Province, it chronicles the rise of the HIV epidemic from the years prior to the Chinese government's acknowledgement of this public health crisis to post-reform thinking about infectious-disease management. With 6 line illustrations, 3 maps, 3 tables. Paperback, 290 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: Hyde, Sandra Teresa
ISBN: 0520247159
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
Date: 2007 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Aids: Social Aspects
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"No Place Left to Bury the Dead"Denial, Despair and Hope in the African Aids Pandemic
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From a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist comes a stunning and sensitive account that puts a human face on the impact of AIDS, and especially on women. What we need to know about an African problem is that it is our problem too. Hardback, 288 pages. Size: 234 x 153 mm. Weight: 451g.
Author: Itano, Nicole
ISBN: 0743270959
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Aids: Social Aspects
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"Side Effects"The Story of Aids in South Africa
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Explains how, and why, AIDS conquered South Africa. This book features the biography of this virus. It provides the background to political controversies about the government's AIDS programme. It also offers an explanation for President Mbeki's flirtation with the AIDS denialists. Paperback, 352 pages. Size: 210 x 135 mm. Weight: 372g.
Author: Lawson, Lesley
ISBN: 1770130675
Publisher: Double Storey
Date: 2007 (South Africa)
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"I Die, But the Memory Lives On"
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Thompson, Laurie (trans.) In this personal account of the Aids epidemic in Africa, the author tells not only of his experiences whilst working for Aids charities on the continent, but of his fears and anxieties for the sufferers. Paperback, 120 pages. Size: 198 x 130 mm. Weight: 107g.
Author: Mankell, Henning
ISBN: 1843432072
Publisher: Vintage
Date: 2004 (United Kingdom)
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"The Wisdom of Whores"
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Offers an overview of a universe of brothels and bureaucracies, of bickering junkies and squabbling charities, of men who sell sex and men who would rather prohibit it. Illustrating science with tales from the frontlines of sex and drugs, this book explains how we could shut down HIV everywhere except sub-Saharan Africa. With map. Hardback, 288 pages. Size: 234 x 153 mm. Weight: 664g.
Author: Pisani, Elizabeth
ISBN: 1847080006
Publisher: Granta Books
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
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"Aids"
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"21st Century Citizen" series; The 21st Century series focuses on social concerns, political problems and new scientific developments in a rapidly changing world. Ages 11-14. With colour illustrations, 1 colour map, colour portraits. Hardback, 48 pages. Size: 262 x 204 mm. Weight: 397g.
Author: Routh, Kristina
ISBN: 0749654619
Publisher: Hachette Children's Books
Date: 2004 (United Kingdom)
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"Combating Aids"Communication Strategies in Action
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Synthesizes critical lessons about effective HIV/AIDS prevention programs, with an emphasis on communication strategies. This book focuses on communication strategies that could mobilize political action, target high-risk groups, and overcome stigma. It also analyzes the value of entertainment-education strategy in HIV prevention and care. With illustrations. Paperback, 426 pages. Size: 210 x 140 mm. Weight: 476g.
Author: Singhal, Arvind Rogers, Everett M.
ISBN: 0761997288
Publisher: Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd
Date: 2002 (India)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Aids: Social Aspects
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"Aids and Power"Why There is No Political Crisis, Yet
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"African Arguments" series; Part of a series on burning issues confronting Africa and the world, this book talks about AIDS in Africa - what it means for government and democracy. It argues that approaches to the epidemic are driven by interests and frameworks that fail to engage with African resilience and creativity. With illustrations. Paperback, 147 pages. Size: 198 x 129 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: Waal, Alexander De
ISBN: 1842777076
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Aids: Social Aspects
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"The Globalization of Aids"An Interdisciplinary Reader
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Seeks to address the need for a comprehensive resource for the social, political, gendered and biomedical implications of HIV/AIDS. Hardback, 624 pages. Weight: 999g.
Author: White, Ren-E T. Pope, Cynthia
ISBN: 0415953820
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Aids: Social Aspects
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