Learning From Hiv and Aids

Informationen zum Autor GEORGE ELLISON is Professor of Public Health and Director of the Institute of Primary Care and Public Health at South Bank University! London. MELISSA PARKER is a lecturer in Social Anthropology and Director of the International Medical Anthropology Programme at Brunel University in London. CATHERINE CAMPBELL is Reader in Social Psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Klappentext This study brings together health-care professionals and scholars from a variety of disciplines who seek to understand! and prevent! the transmission of HIV. The biological and social factors concerned with the spread and impact of HIV/AIDS has resulted in dedicated research from each of the disciplines and provided unique insights into the disease. By assembling their insights in one multidisciplinary volume! this book provides a more complete picture of the complex disease! and demonstrates why preventing the spread of HIV will require interdisciplinary collaboration. Zusammenfassung Holistic overview of what we have learnt about HIV/AIDS! and identifies why so many HIV prevention schemes 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. ...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Catherine Campbell, George Parker Ellison
• Con la collaborazione di: Catherine Campbell (Editore), George Ellison (Editore), Melissa Parker (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.10.2003
• EAN: 9780521808668
• ISBN: 978-0-521-80866-8
• Pagine: 318
• Serie: Biosocial Society Symposium Se; Biosocial Society Symposium Se; Biosocial Society Symposium
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Altro