Globalizing AIDS: Volume 22

by Cindy Patton

Book Overview

A long-awaited look at responses to the AIDS epidemic in relation to globalization

As AIDS began to appear around the "global village" in the early 1980s, the closeness brought by new technologies no longer promised wondrous cultural exchange; instead it made possible the transmission of a frightening new kind of disease. International scientific institutions and news organizations quickly constructed a "place" for AIDS in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816632804
• ISBN13: 9780816632800
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"