The origins of AIDS / Jacques Pepin.
| Author/creator |
Pepin, Jacques, 1958- |
| Format | Tactile Material, Book, and Print |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. |
| Description | xiv, 293 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Out of Africa -- The source -- The timing -- The cut hunter -- Societies in transition -- The oldest trade -- Injections and the transmission of viruses -- The legacies of colonial medicine I: French Equatorial Africa and Cameroun -- The legacies of colonial medicine II: the Belgian Congo -- The other human immunodeficiency viruses -- From the Congo to the Caribbean -- The blood trade -- The globalisation -- Assembling the puzzle -- Epilogue: Lessons learned. |
| Abstract | "This compelling new account traces the origins and development of the most dramatic and destructive disease epidemic of modern times. Jacques Pepin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and the subsequent evolution and transmission of the disease before it was first officially identified in 1981. The book focuses on the specific circumstances in Leopoldville, the capital of the Belgian Congo, where urbanization, the spread of prostitution, and medical interventions to control the incidence of tropical diseases interconnected to fuel the communication of HIV-1 in the 1960s, as the country struggled to adapt to its newfound independence. With a unique synthesis of historical, political and medical elements, this book adds a coherent and necessary historical perspective to recent molecular studies of the chronology of the HIV/AIDS pandemic"--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-281) and index. |
| LCCN | 2011007350 |
| ISBN | 9781107006638 |
| ISBN | 1107006635 |
| ISBN | 9780521186377 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0521186374 (pbk.) |
Available Items
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | RA643.86.A35 P465 2011 | ✔ Available | Place Hold | |
| Laupus | Books - Stacks | WC 503.3 P422O 2011 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |