Sex, Drugs, and HIV/AIDS in Brazil
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: November 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780813334240
Subjects: AIDS: social aspects; Drug addiction & substance abuse; Medical anthropology; Rio de Janeiro; Brazil; Health Care Delivery; Social Science; Urban poor; Sociology; Sociology - General; Medical-Health Care Delivery; Social Science / Sociology / General; Anthropology; AIDS (Disease); Prevention
First sentence: When the noted French poet and chronicler Jean Froissart wrote at the close of the 14th century that "a third of the world has died." he was reflecting on the how the Black Death had ravaged the population of Europe, and how little medieval medicine had to offer in its fight against epidemic diseases.