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Title Learning from HIV/AIDS / edited by George Ellison, Melissa Parker, and Catherine Campbell.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 299 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Biosocial Society symposium series
Biosocial Society symposium series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Introduction. Learning from HIV and AIDS : from multidisciplinary to interdisciplinarity / George T.H. Ellison with Melissa Parker and Cathy Campbell -- HIV and the evolution of infectious diseases / Janis F. Hutchinson -- The epidemiology of HIV/AIDS : contributions to infectious disease epidemiology / Azra Ghani and Marie-Claude Boily -- The influence of HIV/AIDS on demography and demographic research / Simon Gregson -- What have clinicians learnt from working with HIV/AIDS? A medical perspective from London / Chris G.A. Wood with George T.H. Ellison -- How has the HIV/AIDS pandemic contributed to our understanding of behaviour change and health promotion? / Catherine Campbell and Flora Cornish -- Anthropological reflections on HIV prevention strategies : the case for targeting London's backrooms / Melissa Parker -- An absence of anthropology : critical reflections on anthropology and AIDS policy and practice in Africa / Suzette Heald -- A disaster with no name : the HIV/AIDS pandemic and the limits of governance / Alex de Waal -- Postscript : reflections on HIV/AIDS and history / Shula Marks with George T.H. Ellison.
Summary Learning from HIV/AIDS brings together perspectives from different disciplines to assess what we have learnt about HIV/AIDS, and what methodological and theoretical advances have arisen from studying it. It presents a holistic overview of the disease and identifies why unidisciplinary interventions for HIV prevention have failed.
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Subject AIDS (Disease) -- Congresses.
AIDS (Disease) -- Congresses.
AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
HIV Infections.
Sociology, Medical.
Genre/Form Congress.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Ellison, George, 1963-
Parker, Melissa, 1960-
Campbell, Catherine, 1959-
Other Form: Print version: Learning from HIV/AIDS. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 0521004705 (DLC) 2003041963 (OCoLC)51477897
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