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AIDS and power why there is no political crisis--yet
Record details
- ISBN: 9781848130548 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1848130546 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (147 p.) : ill. - Publisher: London ; New York : Zed Books ; Cape Town : David Philip ; [London] : In Association with the International African Institute and the Royal African Society ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-143) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | A manageable catastrophe. -- Life expectancy and public opinion -- Structure of this book -- Denial and how it is overcome. -- Private experience and public concern -- Giving meaning to AIDS -- 'Normalizing' AIDS -- Sex and power -- Domesticating AIDS, and its costs -- The media and overcoming denial -- Pavement radio -- AIDS activists : reformers and revolutionaries. -- Confrontation and its limits -- 'Positive positive women' -- AIDS and elections -- Activist networks, local and global -- Transformations in governance -- New solidarities -- How African democracies withstand AIDS. -- The issue of a lifetime -- 'Weber in reverse' -- How do African states 'really' function? -- Democratic demographics -- The economics of democracy -- 'New variant famine' -- The political benefits of AIDS. -- Ugandan myths -- ABC : carefully mixed messages -- 'Fighting' AIDS -- On the difficulties of showing success -- Treatment regimes -- Power, choices and survival. -- Lutaaya, 'alone' -- Democracies can manage AIDS -- Democracies do not prevent HIV. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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