Local women, global science: fighting AIDS in Kenya
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Main Author: Booth, Karen M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Ind. Indiana University Press ©2004
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Item Description:Karen Booth looks closely at the operation of two clinics in Nairobi, & explores how internationally funded & nationally sanctioned interventions to stop the spread of HIV are focused on the working class & poor - those least able to challenge traditional patterns of behavior, including male dominance
Includes bibliographical references and index
Global medicine, local sex, and crisis -- Nairobi's casino: colonizing AIDS in the urban clinic -- Negotiating AIDS policy in Kenya: 1984-1994 -- "High-frequency transmitters" and invisible men -- "A husband can have a thousand girlfriends!" -- Drugs for whom? "African AIDS" in the second decade
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 204 pages)
ISBN:0253110785
0253216400
0253341817
9780253110787
9780253216403
9780253341815

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