Scrambling for Africa: Aids, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science

by Johanna Tayloe Crane

Book Overview

Countries in sub-Saharan Africa were once dismissed by Western experts as being too poor and chaotic to benefit from the antiretroviral drugs that transformed the AIDS epidemic in the United States and Europe. Today, however, the region is courted by some of the most prestigious research universities in the world as they search for "resource-poor" hospitals in which to base their international HIV research and global health programs. In Scrambling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801479177
• ISBN13: 9780801479175
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher