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Histories of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Product Description
In a series of case studies of sexually transmitted disease and HIV/AIDS from around Africa, contributors examine the social, cultural, and political-economic bases of risk, transmission, and response to epidemic disease. This book brings together major contributions to the historical study of epidemic disease in developing countries and considers how particular constellations of cultural, social, political, and economic factors in different countries have affected the historical patterns of disease and collective (official and community) response to them. This book is a companion volume to Sex, Disease, and Society: A Comparative History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (Greenwood, 1997). From this endeavor to provide insight into the conjunctions and disjunctions between the histories of STDs and the AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa certain common issues have emerged. These include medical ambiguity and epidemiologic diversity; cultural change; racism; gender, labor migration, and economic instability; and the practice of biomedicine and epidemiology in African contexts. All of these factors are embedded in the colonial legacy and post-colonial political economic conditions across the continent.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1173236 in Books
- Published on: 1999-04
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 1.33 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 280 pages
Editorial Reviews
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?This second volume is powerful in the facts that are presented. The contributors have done a magnificent job in giving the reader and insight into a topic "that touches upon core themes and values of any social system: sexuality and the conditions of social reproduction....These are highly researched chapters that provide a wealth of information about STD's and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharian Africa....This is a must book for all libraries in Africa and a highly recommended book for academic libraries throughout the world.?-AIDS Book Review Journal
About the Author
PHILIP W. SETEL is the Director of the Adult Morbidity and Mortality Project in Tanzania, and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne Medical School.
MILTON LEWIS is currently a Senior Fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council in Australia.
MARYINEZ LYONS is an independent consultant and medical historian engaged in studying the social history of AIDS in Uganda.
