AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean
By: edited by George C. Bond ... [et al.].
Contributors: Bond, George C.
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: AIDS (Disease) -- Caribbean Area; AIDS (Disease) -- Africa; Medical anthropology -- Caribbean Area; Medical anthropology -- Africa
Description: This book offers detailed ethnographic studies from Africa and the Caribbean to explain AIDS in a global and comparative third-world context. The essays move beyond medical or epidemiological models, explaining the epidemic in its economic, social, political, and historical contexts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-217) and index.
Based on a conference held in New York in November 1991.