Learning from HIV/AIDS / edited by George Ellison, Melissa Parker, and Catherine Campbell.

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TextSeries: Biosocial Society symposium seriesPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 299 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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0511072449
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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Learning from HIV/AIDS.DDC classification:

362.1/969792 22

LOC classification:

RA643.8 .L437 2003eb

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2003 P-115
WC 503

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Contents:

Introduction. Learning from HIV and AIDS : from multidisciplinary to interdisciplinarity / George T.H. Ellison with Melissa Parker and Cathy Campbell -- HIV and the evolution of infectious diseases / Janis F. Hutchinson -- The epidemiology of HIV/AIDS : contributions to infectious disease epidemiology / Azra Ghani and Marie-Claude Boily -- The influence of HIV/AIDS on demography and demographic research / Simon Gregson -- What have clinicians learnt from working with HIV/AIDS? A medical perspective from London / Chris G.A. Wood with George T.H. Ellison -- How has the HIV/AIDS pandemic contributed to our understanding of behaviour change and health promotion? / Catherine Campbell and Flora Cornish -- Anthropological reflections on HIV prevention strategies : the case for targeting London's backrooms / Melissa Parker -- An absence of anthropology : critical reflections on anthropology and AIDS policy and practice in Africa / Suzette Heald -- A disaster with no name : the HIV/AIDS pandemic and the limits of governance / Alex de Waal -- Postscript : reflections on HIV/AIDS and history / Shula Marks with George T.H. Ellison.

Summary: Learning from HIV/AIDS brings together perspectives from different disciplines to assess what we have learnt about HIV/AIDS, and what methodological and theoretical advances have arisen from studying it. It presents a holistic overview of the disease and identifies why unidisciplinary interventions for HIV prevention have failed.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Learning from HIV/AIDS brings together perspectives from different disciplines to assess what we have learnt about HIV/AIDS, and what methodological and theoretical advances have arisen from studying it. It presents a holistic overview of the disease and identifies why unidisciplinary interventions for HIV prevention have failed.