Features a collection of seven research-based articles on AIDS. This work seeks to cut through popular misunderstanding and conventional ideas about the spread and impact of AIDS by employing a political economic perspective in the analysis of the epidemic in diverse settings.
By:
Merrill Singer
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780415783989
ISBN 10: 0415783984
Series: Critical Approaches in the Health Social Sciences Series
Pages: 236
Publication Date: 30 January 2019
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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ELT Advanced
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Preface Section I: Understanding Epidemics in Political Economic Context Chapter 1 The Political Economy of AIDS: An Introduction Merrill Singer Chapter 2 Images of Catastrophe: The Making of an Epidemic Shirley Lindenbaum Section II: Gender, Ethnicity and Class in AIDS Risk in the Inner-City Chapter 3 Articulating Personal Experience and Political Economy in the AIDS Epidemic: The Case of Carlos Torres Merrill Singer Chapter 4 Love, Jealousy, and Unsafe Sex among Inner-City Women: Social and Psychocultural Mediators of Political Economy's Impact on AIDS Risk Perception E. J. Sobo Chapter 5 Multiple Racial/Ethnic Subordination and HIV among Drug Users Samuel R. Friedman, Benny Jose, Bruce Stepherson, Alan Neaigus, Marjorie Goldstein, Pat Mota, Richard Curtis, and Gilbert Ildefonso Section III: The Struggle for Care Among People with HIV/AIDS Chapter 6 Medical Access for Injecting Drug Users Russell Rockwell, Samuel R. Friedman, Jo L. Sotheran, and Don Des Jarlais Chapter 7 The Political Economy of Caregiving for People with AIDS Anthony J. Lemelle and Charlene Harrington Section IV: AIDS In The Third World Chapter 8 The Political Ecology of AIDS in Africa Meredith Turshen Chapter 9 More than Money for Your Labor. Migration and the Political Economy of AIDS in Lesotho Nancy Romero-Daza and David Himmelgreen Chapter 10 Political Economy and Cultural Logics of HIV/AIDS among the Hmong in Northern Thailand Patricia V. Symonds Conclusion About the Contributors Name Index Topic Index