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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Biosocial Society symposium seriesPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 299 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0511072449
  • 9780511072444
  • 0511063989
  • 9780511063985
  • 0511170459
  • 9780511170454
  • 9780511614026
  • 0511614020
  • 9780521808668
  • 0521808669
  • 1107131693
  • 9781107131699
  • 1280433752
  • 9781280433757
  • 9786610433759
  • 6610433755
  • 0511206356
  • 9780511206351
  • 0511297521
  • 9780511297526
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Learning from HIV/AIDS.DDC classification:
  • 362.1/969792 22
LOC classification:
  • RA643.8 .L437 2003eb
NLM classification:
  • 2003 P-115
  • WC 503
Online resources:
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.

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.

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.

Print version record.

English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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