T. Barnett

AIDS in the Twenty-First Century

Disease and Globalization

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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.

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Whiteside, A.

ISBN: 978-0-230-59920-8
EAN: 9780230599208
Produktnummer: 33397938
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Seitenangabe: 416 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 43'716 KB
Auflage: 2nd ed. 2002
Abbildungen: 19 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, Bibliographie

Über den Autor

TONY BARNETT was Professor of Development Studies at the School of Development Studies, UEA, Norwich. He is now ESRC Professorial Research Fellow at the Development Studies Institute of the London School of Economics. He has been Overseas Visiting Professor at the Institute of Developing Economies in Tokyo. The Royal Anthropological Institute recently awarded him the Lucy Mair Medal for Applied Anthropology to honour excellence in the application of anthropology to the relief of poverty and distress, and to the active recognition of human dignity.ALAN WHITESIDE is Director of the Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division at the University of Natal, South Africa. He is editor of AIDS Analysis Africa. He has undertaken a wide range of consultancy projects and published numerous papers on HIV/AIDS. His most recent book (with Clem Sunter) is AIDS: The Challenge for South Africa.