Waiting to happen : HIV/AIDS in South Africa : the bigger picture
by
Walker, Liz.
Title
:
Waiting to happen : HIV/AIDS in South Africa : the bigger picture
Author
:
Walker, Liz.
ISBN
:
9781588262639
Personal Author
:
Walker, Liz.
Publication Information
:
Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner, 2003.
Physical Description
:
143 p. : ill. ; 25cm.
General Note
:
Drawn from material presented at the AIDS in Context Conference, held at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Apr. 2001.
Contents
:
Foreword / Edwin Cameron -- 1. Sex and power in South Africa -- 2. 'An epidemic waiting to happen' -- 3. Cultural collisions: popular understandings of HIV/AIDS -- 4. Confronting the epidemic.
Abstract
:
"This powerful book - incorporating evocative photographs and the voices of scholars, practitioners, and victims of the epidemic - looks at the social, cultural, and historical aspects of HIV/AIDS in South Africa."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject Term
:
AIDS (Disease) -- South Africa.
AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- South Africa.
HIV infections -- South Africa.
HIV infections -- Social aspects -- South Africa.
HIV Infections -- epidemiology -- South Africa.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- epidemiology -- South Africa.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- ethnology -- South Africa.
HIV Infections -- ethnology -- South Africa.
Social Problems -- South Africa.
Added Author
:
Reid, Graeme.
Cornell, Morna.
Added Conference Author
:
AIDS in Context Conference, (2001 : University of the Witwatersrand)
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
|---|
| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168015751734 | 362.196979200968 W181W 2003 | 1 |