AIDS, culture, and Africa
By: edited by Douglas A. Feldman.
Contributors: Feldman, Douglas A.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780813032535
Subjects: AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- Africa; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- ethnology -- Africa South of the Sahara; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- prevention & control -- Africa South of the Sahara; Cultural Characteristics -- Africa South of the Sahara; Risk Assessment -- Africa South of the Sahara; Sexual Behavior -- ethnology -- Africa South of the Sahara; Socioeconomic Factors -- Africa South of the Sahara
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: AIDS, culture, and Africa : the anthropological perspective / Douglas A. Feldman; title: Confounding conventional wisdom : the Ju/'hoansi and HIV/AIDS / Richard B. Lee and Ida Susser; title: Gendered responses to living with AIDS : case studies in Rwanda / Ruth Kornfield and Stella Babalola; title: A theory of social proximity : accounting for societal-level behavior change / Kate MacIntyre and Carl Kendall; title: Male circumcision in the AIDS era : new relevance of an old topic / Judith E. Brown; title: Factors that influence Ivorian women's risk perception of STIs and HIV / Kim Longfield; title: Courage, conquest, and condoms : harmful ideologies of masculinity and sexual encounters in Zambia in the time of HIV/AIDS / Anthony Simpson; title: Attitudes toward HIV/AIDS among Zambian high school students / Douglas A. Feldman ... [et al.]; title: Myths of science, myths of sex : homophobia and HIV vulnerability in Namibia / Robert Lorway; title: HIV/AIDS prevention : strategies for improving prevention efforts in Africa / Elizabeth Onjoro Meassick; title: Tugende Uganda : issues in defining "sex" and "sexual partners" in Africa / Susan McCombie and Ariela Eshel; title: HIV/AIDS and the context of polygyny and other marital and sexual unions in Africa : implications for risk assessment and interventions / Teresa Swezey and Michele Teitlebaum; title: Gender, poverty, and AIDS risk : case studies from rural Uganda / Charles B. Rwabukwali; title: Culture in action : reactions to social responses to HIV/AIDS in Africa / Eleanor Preston-Whyte; title: Conclusion : it's not just about AIDS; title: the underlying agenda to control HIV in Africa / Douglas A. Feldman.