The Slow Plague: A Geography of the AIDS Pandemic

Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 1993-10-08
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 1557864195
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

The Slow Plague pdf
Description

Based on research by a leading geographer and specialist in diffusion theory, The Slow Plague discloses the geographic dimension 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 areas.

Four case studies at different geographic scales demonstrate the devastating effects of the disease. In Africa the situation is catastrophic, in Thailand it is rapidly becoming so. In the US there are over 300,000 people with AIDS and more than one million infected by the HIV. The relationships between poverty, drugs and HIV infection are brought out poignantly in a chapter about the Bronx.

The author argues that a real understanding of AIDS has been hampered by conscious or unconscious beliefs that those affected are, and will continue to be, confined to specific minority groups and Download The Slow Plague for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

Download The Slow Plague: A Geography of the AIDS Pandemic pdf