Research Catalog

Title

AIDS alibis : sex, drugs, and crime in the Americas / Stephanie C. Kane.

Author

Kane, Stephanie C.

Publication

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1998.

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Details

Description

222 pages : illustrations, map; 22 cm

Summary

"What do government health policies, Central American rituals, blue- and white-collar workers, HIV, and the war on drugs have in common with mayhem, murder, and other social evils? AIDS Alibis is a fresh, astute - in a word, hip - analysis of that commonality."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects > America
• AIDS (Disease)
• Social problems
• Ethnology
• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
• Social Problems
• Anthropology, Cultural
• social issues
• Social problems
• Ethnology
• AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects
• Gesellschaft
• Kriminalität
• Sexualverhalten
• Drogenkonsum
• Aids
• AIDS
• Seksueel gedrag
• Sociale aspecten
• America
• Americas
• America
• Amerika

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-215) and index.

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Introduction (starting p. 1) -- Pt. I Work -- Prostitution North (starting p. 23) -- Folk Surveillance (starting p. 46) -- Prostitution South (starting p. 59) -- Pt. II Escape -- Death Rite (starting p. 77) -- Losing It (starting p. 81) -- Illusion and Control (starting p. 97) -- Easter in Livingston (starting p. 119) -- Pt. III Crime -- Desperate (starting p. 131) -- The Positively Arrogant Mishap (starting p. 148) -- Outtakes (starting p. 163) -- Everything I Have Is Yours (starting p. 170) -- Notes (starting p. 195) -- Bibliography (starting p. 207) -- Index (starting p. 217)

ISBN

• 1566396271
• 9781566396271
• 156639628X
• 9781566396288

LCCN

97049094

OCLC

• ocm37966455
• 37966455
• SCSB-382169

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library