Merrill Singer

The Political Economy of AIDS

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Produktbeschreibung

Features a collection of seven research-based articles on AIDS. This work seeks to cut through popular misunderstanding and conventional ideas about the spread and impact of AIDS by employing a political economic perspective in the analysis of the epidemic in diverse settings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9780415783989
• ISBN-10: 0415783984
• Artikelnr.: 55001884

Autorenporträt

Merrill Singer

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Section I: Understanding Epidemics in Political Economic Context
Chapter 1 The Political Economy of AIDS: An Introduction Merrill Singer
Chapter 2 Images of Catastrophe: The Making of an Epidemic Shirley
Lindenbaum
Section II: Gender, Ethnicity and Class in AIDS Risk in the Inner-City
Chapter 3 Articulating Personal Experience and Political Economy in the
AIDS Epidemic: The Case of Carlos Torres Merrill Singer
Chapter 4 Love, Jealousy, and Unsafe Sex among Inner-City Women: Social and
Psychocultural Mediators of Political Economy's Impact on AIDS Risk
Perception E. J. Sobo
Chapter 5 Multiple Racial/Ethnic Subordination and HIV among Drug Users
Samuel R. Friedman, Benny Jose, Bruce Stepherson, Alan Neaigus, Marjorie
Goldstein, Pat Mota, Richard Curtis,
and Gilbert Ildefonso
Section III: The Struggle for Care Among People with HIV/AIDS
Chapter 6 Medical Access for Injecting Drug Users Russell Rockwell, Samuel
R. Friedman, Jo L. Sotheran, and Don Des Jarlais
Chapter 7 The Political Economy of Caregiving for People with AIDS Anthony
J. Lemelle and Charlene Harrington
Section IV: AIDS In The Third World
Chapter 8 The Political Ecology of AIDS in Africa Meredith Turshen
Chapter 9 More than Money for Your Labor. Migration and the Political
Economy of AIDS in Lesotho Nancy Romero-Daza and David Himmelgreen
Chapter 10 Political Economy and Cultural Logics of HIV/AIDS among the
Hmong in Northern Thailand Patricia V. Symonds
Conclusion
About the Contributors
Name Index
Topic Index