Format:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 204 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2005 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0253341817
,
0253216400
Content:
There is evidence that women who live in societies that uphold male privilege -- the majority of the world's women -- are at increased risk for HIV infection. In Local Women, Global Science, Karen M. Booth looks closely at the operation of two clinics for sexually transmitted diseases in Nairobi, Kenya, and explores how internationally funded and nationally sanctioned interventions to stop the spread of HIV have focused almost exclusively on the sexual and reproductive behaviors of those who are least abl
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-194) and index
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Acknowledgments; Note on Terminology; One: Global Medicine, Local Sex, and Crisis; Two: Nairobi's Casino: Colonizing AIDS in theUrban Clinic; Three: Negotiating AIDS Policy in Kenya:1984-1994; Four: "High-Frequency Transmitters" andInvisible Men; Five: "A Husband Can Have a ThousandGirlfriends!"; Six: Drugs for Whom? "African AIDS" in theSecond Decade; Notes; Works Cited; Index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253341815
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Local Women, Global Science : Fighting AIDS in Kenya
Language:
English
