Synopses & Reviews
In a series of case studies of sexually transmitted disease and HIV/AIDS from around Africa, contributors examine the social, cultural, and political-economic bases of risk, transmission, and response to epidemic disease. This book brings together major contributions to the historical study of epidemic disease in developing countries and considers how particular constellations of cultural, social, political, and economic factors in different countries have affected the historical patterns of disease and collective (official and community) response to them. This book is a companion volume to
Sex, Disease, and Society: A Comparative History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (Greenwood, 1997).
From this endeavor to provide insight into the conjunctions and disjunctions between the histories of STDs and the AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa certain common issues have emerged. These include medical ambiguity and epidemiologic diversity; cultural change; racism; gender, labor migration, and economic instability; and the practice of biomedicine and epidemiology in African contexts. All of these factors are embedded in the colonial legacy and post-colonial political economic conditions across the continent.
Review
The book provides a wealth of information, and clearly offers important insights to researchers and practicioners struggling to understand and prevent the further spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic at the beginning of the 21st century....The book is highly recommended for anyone trying to understand and/or contribute to curb the present day STD, HIV/AIDS epidemics in Sub-Saharan Africa.Adolescent Reproductive Health Network Newsletter
Review
For those who seek a starting point to understand how the past has influenced the present, the quality is high.Venereology
Review
It maintains the high standards of its predecessor...Population Studies
Description
"Selected bibliography": p. [245]-254. Includes bibliographical references and index.
About the Author
PHILIP W. SETEL is the Director of the Adult Morbidity and Mortality Project in Tanzania, and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne Medical School.MILTON LEWIS is currently a Senior Fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council in Australia.MARYINEZ LYONS is an independent consultant and medical historian engaged in studying the social history of AIDS in Uganda.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Comparative Histories of STDs and HIV/AIDS in Africa by Philip Setel
Sex, Disease, and Culture Change in Ghana by Deborah Pellow
Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS in Cote d'Ivoire by Jeanne-Marie Amat-Roze
A History of STDs and AIDS in Senegal--Difficulties in Accounting for 'Social Logics' in Health Policy by Charles Becker and Rene Collignon
Medicine and Morality: A Review of Responses to Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Uganda Over the 20th Century by Maryinez Lyons
Local Histories of STDs and AIDS in Western and Northern Tanzania by Philip Setel
Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Colonial Malawi by Wiseman Chijere Chirwa
The Social, Cultural, and Epidemiological History of STDs in Zambia by Bryan T. Callahan and Virginia Bond
The Management of Venereal Disease in a Settler Society: Colonial Zimbabwe, 1900 to 1930 by Jock McCulloch
The Origins of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century South Africa and the Development of Racially Segregated Approaches to Treatment by Karen Jochelson
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Illustrations