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Unimagined community : sex, networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa
- Title
- Unimagined community : sex, networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa / Robert J. Thornton.
- Author
- Thornton, Robert J.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | RA643.86.U33 T46 2008 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxi, 282 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- The anthropological approach of this book helps to shed light on a central conundrum surrounding AIDS in Africa - why HIV prevalence fell in Uganda during the 1990s despite that country having one of Africa's highest fertility rates, while rising over the same period in South Africa, the country with the continent's lowest fetility rate.
- Series Statement
- California series in public anthropology ; 20
- Uniform Title
- California series in public anthropology ; 20.
- Subject
- AIDS (Disease) > Uganda > Epidemiology
- AIDS (Disease) > South Africa > Epidemiology
- AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects > Uganda
- AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects > South Africa
- Medical policy
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > epidemiology
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > prevention & control
- Anthropology, Cultural > methods
- Health Policy
- Sexual Behavior
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Medical policy
- AIDS (Disease) > Epidemiology
- AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects
- Aids
- Gesundheitspolitik
- Aids > sociala aspekter > Uganda
- Aids > sociala aspekter > Sydafrika
- Folkhälsopolitik > Uganda
- Folkhälsopolitik > Sydafrika
- South Africa > epidemiology
- Uganda > epidemiology
- South Africa
- Uganda
- Südafrika
- Südafrika <Staat>
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-274) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: meaning and structure in the study of AIDS -- Comparing Uganda and South Africa: sexual networks, family structure, and property -- The social determinants of sexual network configuration -- The tightening chain: civil society and Uganda's response to HIV/AIDS -- AIDS in Uganda: years of chaos and recovery -- Siliimu as native category: AIDS as local knowledge in Uganda -- Uganda"s indigenization of AIDS: governance and the political response in Uganda -- South Africa's struggle: the omission and commission of truth about AIDS -- Imagining AIDS: South Africa's viral politics -- Flows of sexual substance: the sexual network in South Africa -- Preventing AIDS: a new paradigm for a new strategy.
- ISBN
- 9780520255524
- 0520255526
- 9780520255531
- 0520255534
- LCCN
- 2007046954
- 99821764974
- OCLC
- ocn181903314
- 181903314
- SCSB-14652976
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library