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  • Aids And Stds In Africa

    Bridging The Gap Between Traditional Healing And Modern Medicine

    de Edward C Green ...
    This book emphasizes the factors in the spread and control of AIDS that have received less attention in the literature. It suggests that a collaborative action program involving traditional healers is necessary if we wish to impact the spread of AIDS and other STDs in Africa. ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Broken Promises

    How the AIDS Establishment has Betrayed the Developing World

    de Edward C Green ...
    Ideological blinders have led to millions of preventable AIDS deaths in Africa. Dr. Edward C. Green, former director of the Harvard AIDS Prevention Project, describes how Western AIDS “experts” stubbornly pursued ineffective remedies and sabotaged the most successful AIDS prevention program on that ravaged continent. Drawing on 30 years of conducting research in Africa, Southeast Asia, and other ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • AIDS, Behavior, and Culture

    Understanding Evidence-Based Prevention

    de Edward C Green, Allison Herling Ruark ...
    Series series Key Questions in Anthropology
    AIDS, Behavior, and Culture presents a bold challenge to the prevailing wisdom of “the global AIDS industry” and offers an alternative framework for understanding what works in HIV prevention. Arguing for a behavior-based approach, Green and Ruark make the case that the most effective programs are those that encourage fundamental behavioral changes such as abstinence, delay of sex, faithfulness, ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • Indigenous Theories of Contagious Disease

    de Edward C. Green ...
    Far from being the province of magic, witchcraft, and sorcery, indigenous understanding of contagious disease in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world very often parallels western concepts of germ theory, according to the author. Labeling this 'indigenous contagion theory (ICT),' Green synthesizes the voluminous ethnographic work on tropical diseases and remedies_as well as 20 years of his ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

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  • Tinderbox

    How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It

    de Craig Timberg, Daniel Halperin ...
    In this groundbreaking narrative, longtime Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg and award-winning AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin tell the surprising story of how Western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and then fanned its rise. Drawing on remarkable new science, Tinderbox overturns the conventional wisdom on the origins of this deadly pandemic and the best ways to fight it ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • HIV & AIDS

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Alan Whiteside ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In 2008 it was believed that HIV/AIDS was without doubt the worst epidemic to hit humankind since the Black Death. The first case was identified in 1981; by 2004 it was estimated that about 40 million people were living with the disease, and about 20 million had died. Yet the outlook today is a little brighter. Although HIV/ AIDS continues to be a pressing public health issue the epidemic has ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Disabusing Sexuality

    de Canon Nathan Karema ...
    ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Canon Nathan Karema graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree specializing in Psychology and Sociology at the Middlesex University in London (UK). He obtained a Master of Science in Health Promotion from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2000. He is also the holder of the following qualifications: Post Graduate Diploma in Health Promotion from the London ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Anxious Politics

    Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World

    de Bethany Albertson, Shana Kushner Gadarian ...
    Emotions matter in politics - enthusiastic supporters return politicians to office, angry citizens march in the streets, a fearful public demands protection from the government. Anxious Politics explores the emotional life of politics, with particular emphasis on how political anxieties affect public life. When the world is scary, when politics is passionate, when the citizenry is anxious, does ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Young People's Lives and Sexual Relationships in Rural Africa

    Findings from a Large Qualitative Study in Tanzania

    de Mary Louisa Plummer, Daniel Wight ...
    New infections with HIV remain an urgent problem among young people in Africa, but many young Africans pursue sexual relationships with little thought about the epidemic. This book examines young people's sexual relationships in a region typical of rural sub-Saharan Africa and investigates why the risk of HIV infection generally was not a salient concern for them. It is based on an extraordinarily ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Strategies for Awareness & Prevention of Hiv/Aids Among African-Americans

    A Hand Book

    de Dr. R akesh K. Mehta ...
    This handbook has been developed to support health educators, community workers, teachers and parents in their efforts to protect the African American people from the scrouge of HIV/AIDS. The primary target of the hand book are teenagers/youth and other African American persons who are the less fortunate components of our society, because it is this population that is most susceptible to this ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Power in the Blood

    A Handbook on Aids, Politics, and Communication

    Edición de William N. Elwood ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    In this single volume, William N. Elwood has gathered potent evidence of the impact that the HIV/AIDS epidemic has had on the world, its communities, and its inhabitants, and he addresses the role of communication in affecting the way in which people respond to AIDS. With a multidisciplinary group of contributors and topics ranging from political rhetoric to interpersonal discourse, Power in the ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Prescribing HIV Prevention

    Bringing Culture into Global Health Communication

    de Nicola Bulled ...
    Series series Critical Cultural Studies in Global Health Communication
    Critical health communication scholars point out that the acceptance of HIV risk prevention methods are bound inside inequitable structures of power and knowledge. Nicola Bulled’s in-depth ethnographic account of how these messages are selected, transmitted and reacted to by young adults in the AIDS-torn population of Lesotho in southern Africa provides a crucial example of the importance of a ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD