Histories of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa / edited by Philip W. Setel, Milton Lewis, and Maryinez Lyons.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Setel, Philip.

Lewis, Milton James.

Lyons, Maryinez.

Series:

Contributions in medical studies 0886-8220 ; no. 44.

Contributions in medical studies, 0886-8220 ; no. 44

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexually transmitted diseases--Africa, Sub-Saharan--History.

Sexually transmitted diseases.

AIDS (Disease)--Africa, Sub-Saharan--History.

AIDS (Disease).

History.

Sub-Saharan Africa.

Physical Description:

vi, 267 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Comparative histories of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Africa / Philip W. Setel

Sex, disease, and culture change in Ghana / Deborah Pellow

Sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Côte d'Ivoire / Jeanne-Marie Amat-Roze

History of sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS in Senegal / Charles Becker and René Collignon

Medicine and morality / Maryinez Lyons

Local histories of sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS in Western and Northern Tanzania / Philip W. Setel

Sexually transmitted diseases in colonial Malawi / Wiseman Chijere Chirwa

Social, cultural, and epidemiological history of sexually transmitted diseases in Zambia / Bryan T. Callahan and Virginia Bond

Management of venereal disease in a settler society / Jock McCulloch

Sexually transmitted diseases in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa / Karen Jochelson

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-254) and index.

ISBN:

0313297150

OCLC:

39625187