AIDS in the Twenty-First Century: Disease and Globalization

by Tony Barnett and Alan Whiteside

Book Overview

Introduction: Disease, Change, Consciousness and Denial The Disease and its Epidemiology Susceptibility: Epidemic Roots Susceptibility: Cases Why Africa? Vulnerability and Impact Introduction to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140390006X
• ISBN13: 9781403900067
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A rare focus on the social and economic context

This is the only book-length exploration of the social and economic context of the the HIV/AIDS epidemics. What comes through is that the authors are not journalists who dashed off a book on AIDS, but longtime researchers, with world-ranging experience. WHile well documented, it is readable. The next college level course I teach on contemporary issues will surely include this as required reading. My students will thank me for it.

The best comprehensive treatment of HIV/AIDS

Tony Barnett and Alan Whieside have done a fantastic job of placing the issue of HIV/AIDS within a comprehensive context. It is easy to read, well researched, thoughtful in it's analysis, and comprehensive - that is, it places the pandemic amidst the global forces that are affecting it and which must be understood if we're to successfully turn the tide. I am recommending it to many of my colleagues! It is the best book I have read to-date on the most challenging crisis facing the human family.