Learning from HIV and AIDS

Klappentext The authors present a holistic overview of what doctors have learned about HIV/AIDS, and identifies why so many HIV prevention schemes have failed. Zusammenfassung Learning from HIV/AIDS brings together perspectives from different disciplines to assess what we have learnt about HIV/AIDS! and what methodological and theoretical advances have arisen from studying it. It presents a holistic overview of the disease and identifies why unidisciplinary interventions for HIV prevention have failed. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Learning from HIV/AIDS: from multidisciplinary to interdisciplinarity George Ellison, Melissa Parker and Cathy Campbell; 2. HIV and the evolution of infectious diseases Janice Hutchinson; 3. The epidemiology of HIV/AIDS: contributions to infectious disease epidemiology Azra Ghani and Marie-Claude Boily; 4. The influence of HIV/AIDS on demography and demographic research Simon Gregson; 5. What have clinicians learnt from working with HIV/AIDS? A medical perspective from London Chris Wood and George Ellison; 6. How has the HIV/AIDS pandemic contributed to our understandings of behaviour change and health promotion? Catherine Campbell and Flora Cornish; 7. Anthropological reflections on HIV prevention strategies: the case for targeting London's backrooms. Melissa Parker; 8. An absence of anthropology: critical reflections on anthropology and AIDS policy and practice in Africa Suzette Heald; 9. A disaster with no name: the HIV/AIDS pandemic and the limits of governance Alex de Waal; 10. Postscript: Reflections on HIV/AIDS and history Shula Marks.

Product details

• Authors: C. Campbell, Catherine Campbell, G. Ellison, George Ellison, M. Parker
• Assisted by: Catherine Campbell (Editor), Catherine (London School of Economics and Political Science) Campbell (Editor), George Ellison (Editor), George (South Bank University Ellison (Editor), Melissa Parker (Editor), Melissa (Brunel University) Parker (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2003
• EAN: 9780521004701
• ISBN: 978-0-521-00470-1
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Biosocial Society Symposium Se; Biosocial Society Symposium Series; Biosocial Society Symposium Se; Biosocial Society Symposium Series; Biosocial Society Symposium
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General