AIDS in the Twenty-First Century: Disease and Globalization

✍ Scribed by Tony Barnett, Alan Whiteside (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Leaves: 425
Edition: 2
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Essential reading for social and medical scientists and all those interested in infectious diseases and public health, AIDS and the Twenty-First Century examines the social and economic origins and impacts of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. HIV/AIDS is not only a medical problem. It is an indication of the scale of the global crisis in public health. Accessibly written, this book is necessary reading for policymakers, students and all those who are concerned about the relationship between poverty, inequality and infectious diseases.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Disease, Change, Consciousness and Denial....Pages 3-23
The Disease and its Epidemiology....Pages 24-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Epidemic Roots....Pages 65-97
Cases....Pages 98-123
Why Africa?....Pages 124-156
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Introduction to Impact....Pages 159-181
Individuals, Households and Communities....Pages 182-195
Dependants: Orphans and the Elderly....Pages 196-221
Subsistence Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods....Pages 222-241
HIV/AIDS and ‘For Profit’ Enterprise....Pages 242-270
AIDS, Development and Economic Growth....Pages 271-294
Government and Governance....Pages 295-315
Responses....Pages 316-346
Globalisation, Inequality, HIV/AIDS and the Intimacies of Self....Pages 347-365
Back Matter....Pages 366-416

✦ Subjects

Medical Sociology; Development Policy; Social Policy; Political Sociology; Sociology, general; Epidemiology

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