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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ellison, George, 1963- editor.

Parker, Melissa, 1960- editor.

Campbell, Catherine, 1959- editor.

Series:

Biosocial Society symposium series ; 15.

Biosocial Society symposium series ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Congresses.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 299 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Learning from HIV & AIDS

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Different professional and academic disciplines have addressed the HIV/AIDS pandemic from a variety of perspectives, using different analytical approaches. By bringing these together in one volume, Learning from HIV/AIDS provides a more complete picture of this multi-faceted disease - from the biological and social factors which facilitate HIV transmission - to the powerful cultural and political forces which fuel the pandemic. Chapters from contributors working on the aetiology, treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS identify how their work has helped predict the spread of HIV and has improved the survival of those infected. Yet interventions to reduce the spread of HIV have had limited success, and few HIV-infected individuals have access to combination drug therapies. Written for students and researchers, and taking an interdisciplinary perspective, this book demonstrates that progress in developing effective and acceptable interventions can only be achieved through collaboration between the biological, medical and social sciences.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-107-13169-3

1-280-43375-2

9786610433759

0-511-17045-9

0-511-20635-6

0-511-06398-9

0-511-29752-1

0-511-61402-0

0-511-07244-9

OCLC:

62890007