Local Women, Global Science - Fighting Aids in Kenya

Informationen zum Autor Karen M. Booth Klappentext This bold and important book reveals conceptual flaws in AIDS prevention policy and will inspire new ideas for dealing with this deadly epidemic in Kenya, Africa, and beyond. Zusammenfassung Exposes the national and international politics behind HIV/AIDS prevention in Kenya Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Note on Terminology 1. Global Medicine, Local Sex, and Crisis 2. Nairobi's Casino: Colonizing AIDS in the Urban Clinic 3. Negotiating AIDS Policy in Kenya, 1984-1994 4. "High-Frequency Transmitters" and Invisible Men 5. "A Husband Can Have a Thousand Girlfriends!" 6. Drugs for Whom? "African AIDS" in the Second Decade Notes Works Cited Index

Product details

• Authors: Karen Booth, Karen M Booth, Karen M. Booth, Booth Karen M
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.05.2004
• EAN: 9780253216403
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21640-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)