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“daniel wight”

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  • Young People's Lives and Sexual Relationships in Rural Africa

    Findings from a Large Qualitative Study in Tanzania

    by Mary Louisa Plummer, Daniel Wight ...
    New infections with HIV remain an urgent problem among young people in Africa, but many young Africans pursue sexual relationships with little thought about the epidemic. This book examines young people's sexual relationships in a region typical of rural sub-Saharan Africa and investigates why the risk of HIV infection generally was not a salient concern for them. It is based on an extraordinarily ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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    One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children

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    Two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene puts a humanface on the African AIDS crisis with this powerful story of one womanworking to save her country's children.After losing her husband and daughter, Haregewoin Teferra, an Ethiopian woman of modest means, opened her home to some of the thousands of children in Addis Ababa who have been left as orphans. There Is No Me Without You is ... Read more

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  • The Forgetting

    Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic

    by David Shenk ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERA powerfully engaging, scrupulously researched, and deeply empathetic narrative of the history of Alzheimer’s disease, how it affects us, and the search for a cure.**Afflicting nearly half of all people over the age of 85, Alzheimer’s disease kills nearly 100,000 Americans a year as it insidiously robs them of their memory and wreaks havoc on the lives of their loved ones. It ... Read more

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  • Love in the Time of AIDS

    Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa

    by Mark Hunter ...
    In some parts of South Africa, more than one in three people are HIV positive. Love in the Time of AIDS explores transformations in notions of gender and intimacy to try to understand the roots of this virulent epidemic. By living in an informal settlement and collecting love letters, cell phone text messages, oral histories, and archival materials, Mark Hunter details the everyday social ... Read more

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  • Piecing the Puzzle

    The Genesis of AIDS Research in Africa

    by Larry Krotz ...
    In 1979, Dr. Allan Ronald, a specialist in infectious diseases from Canada, and Dr. Herbert Nsanze, head of medical microbiology at University of Nairobi, met through the World Health Organization. Ronald had just completed a successful project that cured a chancroid (genital ulcer) epidemic in Winnipeg and Nsanze asked him to come to Kenya to help with Kenya’s “sexual diseases problem.” That ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • How Ethical Systems Change: Tolerable Suffering and Assisted Dying

    by Sheldon Ekland-Olson, Elyshia Aseltine ...
    Series series Framing 21st Century Social Issues
    Medical advances prolong life. They also sometimes prolong suffering. Should we protect life or alleviate suffering? This dilemma formed the foundation for a powerful right-to-die movement and a counterbalancing concern over an emerging culture of death. What are the qualities of a life worth living? Where are the boundaries of tolerable suffering? This book is based on a hugely popular ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • AIDS and Power

    Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet

    by Alex de Waal ...
    Series series African Arguments
    One in six adults in sub-Saharan Africa will die in their prime of AIDS. It is a stunning cataclysm, plunging life expectancy to pre-modern levels and orphaning millions of children. Yet political trauma does not grip Africa. People living with AIDS are not rioting in the streets or overthrowing governments. In fact, democratic governance is spreading. Contrary to fearful predictions, the social ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • HIV/AIDS Communication in South Africa

    Are You Human?

    by C. Chasi ...
    Even though sub-Saharan Africa is the region most affected by HIV/AIDS in the world, no new theories have been discovered, and questions about life and death are ignored. This book uses certain selected communication practices to offer the foundations of an African theory of communication, applicable to the crisis of HIV/AIDS. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Ecologies and Politics of Health

    Edited by Brian King, Kelley A. Crews ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    Human health exists at the interface of environment and society. Decades of work by researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers has shown that health is shaped by a myriad of factors, including the biophysical environment, climate, political economy, gender, social networks, culture, and infrastructure. Yet while there is emerging interest within the natural and social sciences on the social and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • HIV Scale-Up and the Politics of Global Health

    Edited by Richard Parker, Nora Kenworthy ...
    The global expansion of HIV programming (HIV "scale-up") and the growth of global health in the past decade reshaped politics, power, civic relations, and citizen subjectivities in countries across the globe. This book draws on interdisciplinary research from numerous sites in the Global South to examine the political dimensions of HIV and global health programming. The chapters reflect extensive ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Inner Sky

    Life Begins Where Resistance Ends

    by Steven Layer ...
    A conversation about resistance...to life's experiences.If I had one afternoon to spend with my friend Lily, just diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, what would I say?I had been where she is now, yet against all the odds found the way to experience a complete and spontaneous healing. The secrets I was shown are the opposite of what society teaches us. This was not a miracle (as it may seem) ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Men Who Sell Sex

    Global Perspectives

    Edited by Peter Aggleton, Richard Parker ...
    Series series Sexuality, Culture and Health
    All over the world, men as well as women exchange sex for money and other forms of reward, sometimes with other men and sometimes with women. In contrast to female prostitution, however, relatively little is known about male sex work, leaving questions unanswered about the individuals involved: their identities and self-understandings, the practices concerned, and the contexts in which they take ... Read more

    $59.99 USD