Before HIV - Sexuality, Fertility and Mortality in East Africa, 1900-1980

Zusatztext a well-researched, solidly documented study ... Highly recommended. Informationen zum Autor Shane Doyle was educated at Cambridge and SOAS. Currently Senior Lecturer in African History at the University of Leeds, he was previously a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, and before that Assistant Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa. His current research on the history of sexuality and demographic change in East Africa has been funded by the AHRC, British Academy and the ESRC. Klappentext Two of the most important questions in modern African history are the causes of its population explosion, and the origins of the HIV pandemic. Before HIV shows that the more permissive sexual culture which permitted HIV to spread so quickly can be traced back to the mid-20th century, when new patterns of socialization and sexual networking emerged. Zusammenfassung Two of the most important questions in modern African history are the causes of its population explosion, and the origins of the HIV pandemic. Before HIV shows that the more permissive sexual culture which permitted HIV to spread so quickly can be traced back to the mid-20th century, when new patterns of socialization and sexual networking emerged. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Sexuality and fertility in the pre-colonial period 2: Disease and mortality, 1860-1925 3: Early colonial sexuality and fertility 4: Marriage and sexuality in Buganda, 1925-69 5: Prostitution in Buhaya, 1925-1969 6: Ankole: marriage and the ethnicity of sex, 1925-69 7: Fertility in Ankole, Buganda and Buhaya, 1925-6 8: Disease and death, 1925-196 9: Sexuality, mortality, disease and fertility in the 1970S Conclusion And Epilogue: AIDS and demographic change in historical context

Product details

• Authors: Shane Doyle, Shane (Senior Lecturer in African History Doyle, Doyle Shane
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2012
• EAN: 9780197265338
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726533-8
• No. of pages: 450
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 240 mm x 30 mm
• Series: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs; British Academy Postdoctoral F; British Academy Monographs; British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs; British Academy Postdoctoral F
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, MEDICAL / History, MEDICAL / AIDS & HIV, HISTORY / Africa / East, East Africa, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Medicine, African History, HIV / AIDS, Medicine: HIV/AIDS, retroviral diseases