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The histories of HIVs : the emergence of the multiple viruses that caused the AIDS epidemics / edited by William H. Schneider, PhD.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Perspectives on global healthPublisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2021]Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 263 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780821447444
  • 0821447440
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The histories of HIVsDDC classification:
  • 616.97/9201096 23
LOC classification:
  • QR414.6.H58 H54 2021
Online resources:
Contents:
Preface / François Simon -- Acknowledgements / William H. Schneider -- The Histories of HIVs: The Multiple Viruses that Caused the AIDS Epidemic / William H. Schneider -- Explaining the Emergence of HIVs / Preston A. Marx -- The Origins of HIVs and the Epidemiology of AIDS: An Introduction / Ernest M. Drucker -- From Chimps to Humans: An Historical Epidemiology of HIV Beginnings / Tamara Giles-Vernick and Stephanie Rupp -- A Social Virus: The Emergence of HIV-1 in Colonial Kinshasa, 1900-1960 / Didier Gondola and Amandine Lauro -- The Cameroonian Puzzle: Historical and Virological Aspects of the Emergence of HIV-1 groups O, N, and P / Guillaume Lachenal -- The Emergence and Spread of HIV-2 in Ivory Coast and Guinea-Bissau / Jorge Varanda -- Histories of HIVs in Broader Perspective / William H. Schneider.
Summary: "In this interdisciplinary collection, experts provide the most complete description to date of the often ignored and underappreciated features of the history of the multiple human immunodeficiency viruses (HIVs) responsible for the global AIDS pandemic"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / François Simon -- Acknowledgements / William H. Schneider -- The Histories of HIVs: The Multiple Viruses that Caused the AIDS Epidemic / William H. Schneider -- Explaining the Emergence of HIVs / Preston A. Marx -- The Origins of HIVs and the Epidemiology of AIDS: An Introduction / Ernest M. Drucker -- From Chimps to Humans: An Historical Epidemiology of HIV Beginnings / Tamara Giles-Vernick and Stephanie Rupp -- A Social Virus: The Emergence of HIV-1 in Colonial Kinshasa, 1900-1960 / Didier Gondola and Amandine Lauro -- The Cameroonian Puzzle: Historical and Virological Aspects of the Emergence of HIV-1 groups O, N, and P / Guillaume Lachenal -- The Emergence and Spread of HIV-2 in Ivory Coast and Guinea-Bissau / Jorge Varanda -- Histories of HIVs in Broader Perspective / William H. Schneider.

"In this interdisciplinary collection, experts provide the most complete description to date of the often ignored and underappreciated features of the history of the multiple human immunodeficiency viruses (HIVs) responsible for the global AIDS pandemic"-- Provided by publisher.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 26, 2021).

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 050

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