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The slow plague : a geography of the AIDS pandemic
- Title
- The slow plague : a geography of the AIDS pandemic / Peter Gould.
- Author
- Gould, Peter, 1932-2000
- Publication
- Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, USA : Blackwell Publishers, 1993.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | RA644.A25 G685 1993 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvi, 228 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- This book discloses the geographic dimensions of the AIDS pandemic. It provides a lucid description of the HIV, its origins, and the extent to which it has now permeated our lives. The author shows how the virus jumps from city to city, creating regional epicenters from which it spreads into surrounding area.--[book cover].
- Subject
- AIDS (Disease) > Epidemiology
- Medical geography
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > epidemiology
- Topography, Medical
- 44.78 immunological diseases
- AIDS (Disease) > Epidemiology
- Medical geography
- Syndrome d'immunodéficience acquise > Épidémiologie
- Aids
- Ausbreitung
- Epidemiologie
- AIDS
- Epidemiologie
- Geografische verspreiding
- Épidémies
- Sida > Épidémiologie
- USA
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliogrphical references and index.
- Contents
- Preface: why a geographer writes about AIDS -- Acknowledgments: intellectual antennae -- Prologue: new plagues for old--the horseman rides again -- The killer: HIV and what it does -- The origins of HIV: closing an open question? -- The thin tendrils of effects -- Sex on a set: a backcloth for disaster -- Transmission break: a geography of the condom -- How things spread: hierarchical jumps and spatial contagion -- Africa: a continent in catastrophe -- Thailand: how to optimize an epidemic -- America: leaks in the system -- The Bronx: poverty, crack and HIV -- The response: how many bureaucrats can dance on the head of a pin? -- Time but no space: the failure of a paradigm -- The geography in confidentiality -- Education and planning: predicting the next maps -- Herd immunity: riding the coat-tails of the HIV -- Epilogue: old plagues for new -- Changing worlds, changing genres: a bibliographic essay.
- ISBN
- 1557864187
- 9781557864185
- 1557864195
- 9781557864192
- LCCN
- 92038653
- OCLC
- ocm26853945
- 26853945
- SCSB-1989157
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library