Eating Spring Rice
Subtitle: The Cultural Politics of AIDS in Southwest China
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 16, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780520247154
Subjects: AIDS: social aspects; Medical / Nursing; China; Medical; Yunnan Sheng; Social Science; Anthropology - General; Asia - China; Health Care Delivery; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Ethics; AIDS (Disease); Government policy; Social aspects
First sentence: Despite "the fact that AIDS had appeared simultaneously in disparate cultures and apparently unconnected places around the globe," by the late 1980s, the World Health Organization had carved up the world based on epidemiologic maps of HIV/AIDS (Patton 200