كتاب
Tinderbox: how the West sparked the AIDS epidemic and how the world can finally overcome it
| العنوان: | Tinderbox: how the West sparked the AIDS epidemic and how the world can finally overcome it |
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| المؤلفون: | Timberg, Craig. |
| المساهمون: | Halperin, Daniel. |
| بيانات النشر: | New York : Penguin Press, 2012. |
| سنة النشر: | 2012 |
| وصف مادي: | 421 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Western World., HIV Infections -- etiology., HIV Infections -- epidemiology., Colonialism., Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- etiology., Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- epidemiology., AIDS (Disease) -- Africa -- Epidemiology., AIDS (Disease) -- Africa -- Etiology., HIV infections -- Africa -- Epidemiology., HIV infections -- Africa -- Etiology. |
| جغرافية الموضوع: | Africa -- epidemiology., Africa. |
| الوصف: | "Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg and Harvard AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin, PhD, recount for the first time how Western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and then fanned its rise. Drawing on remarkable new genetic discoveries, Tinderbox overturns the conventional wisdom on the origins of this deadly pandemic and the best means to fight it today"--Provided by publisher. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Silent spread. Francistown ; Searching for the beginning ; One tiny speck of truth ; A tale of two viruses ; The lion and Dr. Livingstone ; Femmes vivant théoriquement seules ; The gift ; The Big Bang -- An epidemic of politics. Americanizing AIDS ; It can't be here already! ; Attention na SIDA ; You won't believe ; Fear worked ; Born in Africa ; The Condom Code ; The beat-up ; Things just fell apart -- The humbling. X-factor ; The interests of the ANC ; Poverty trap ; A, B, and C ; On the Jericho Road ; Gordon and Thandi ; A Marshall Plan for Botswana ; What shall we do? ; Raymond the Great ; Makhwapheni Uyabulala ; The flood ; Mother and son ; What shall we do? Part II -- Appendix. How the AIDS epidemic can be overcome. |
| Original Identifier: | (PromptCat)99947351761 ocn729341533 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-1-59420-327-5 1-59420-327-X |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-401) and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.013111142.6 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9781594203275 159420327X |
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