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AIDS Between Science and Politics

Autor Peter Piot, Laurence Garey
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 mai 2015
A social, political, and human history of the epidemic, with a look at its ongoing challenges, written by a scientist, physician, and pioneering world health leader.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780231166263
ISBN-10: 0231166265
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: 72
Dimensiuni: 153 x 235 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Columbia University Press

Notă biografică

Peter Piot is the director of the renowned London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a professor of global health. He is a former Under Secretary General of the United Nations, the founding executive director of UNAIDS, and co-discoverer of the Ebola virus, and former president of the International AIDS Society. He has published more than 500 scientific papers and articles and sixteen books, including his memoirs, No Time To Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses.

Laurence Garey is an anatomist, former member the Court of Examiners, Royal College of Surgeons of England, and the Council of the Anatomical Society. He has translated works from French and German, including Jean-Didier Vincent and Pierre-Marie Lledo's The Custom-Made Brain: Cerebral Plasticity, Regeneration, and Enhancement. He is an associate collaborator with the Institute of the History of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Translator's Note
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Heterogeneous and Still-Evolving Epidemic
2. Hyperendemic HIV in Southern Africa: The Heritage of Apartheid
3. AIDS as an International Political Issue
4. A New Type of Transnational Civil Society Movement
5. The Right to Treatment
6. Combination Prevention
7. The Economics of AIDS
8. Prominence of Human Rights
9. The Long-Term View
Notes
Index