| Description |
xvi, 228 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Preface: why a geographer writes about AIDS -- Acknowledgements: intellectual antennae -- Prologue: new plagues for old - the horseman rides again -- 1. The killer: HIV and what it does -- 2. The origins of HIV: closing an open question? -- 3. The thin tendrils of effects -- 4. Sex on a set: a backcloth for disaster -- 5. Transmission break: a geography of the condom -- 6. How things spread: hierarchical jumps and spatial contagion -- 7. Africa: a continent in catastrophe -- 8. Thailand: how to optimize an epidemic -- 9. America: leaks in the system -- 10. The Bronx: poverty, crack and HIV -- 11. The response: how many bureaucrats can dance on the head of a pin? -- 12. Time but no space: the failure of a paradigm -- 13. The geography in confidentiality -- 14. Education and planning: predicting the next maps -- 15. Herd immunity: riding the coat-tails of the HIV -- 16. Epilogue: old plagues for new -- Changing worlds, changing genres: a bibliographic essay |
| Summary |
This book discloses the geographic dimensions of the AIDS pandemic. It provides a lucid description of the HIV, its origins, and the extent to which it has now permeated our lives. The author shows how the virus jumps from city to city, creating regional epicenters from which it spreads into surrounding area.--[book cover] |
| Analysis |
Humans AIDS |
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AIDS |
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AIDS |
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Africa |
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Case studies |
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Disease outbreaks |
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International comparisons |
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Mapping |
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Overseas item |
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Statistics |
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Thailand |
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United States |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliogrphical references and index |
| Subject |
AIDS (Disease) -- Epidemiology.
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Medical geography.
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- epidemiology.
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| LC no. |
92038653 |
| ISBN |
1557864187 (acid-free paper) |
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1557864195 (paperback: acid-free paper) |
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