Format:
1 Online-Ressource (147 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9781350218376
Series Statement:
African arguments
Content:
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.
Content:
AIDS and Power explains why social and political life in Africa goes on in a remarkably normal way, and how political leaders have successfully managed the AIDS epidemic so as to overcome any threats to their power
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-143) and index
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781842777060
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848130548
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1848130546
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1842777076
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781842777077
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1842777068
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1281215589
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781281215581
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1842777068
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781842777060
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe De Waal, Alexander AIDS and power 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
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350218376
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