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Unimagined community : sex, networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa

Title
  1. Unimagined community : sex, networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa / Robert J. Thornton.
Published by
  1. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
Author
  1. Thornton, Robert J.

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Description
  1. xxi, 282 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Series statement
  1. California series in public anthropology ; 20
Subject
  1. Sexual Behavior > South Africa
  2. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > epidemiology > Uganda
  3. Health Policy > Uganda
  4. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > prevention & control > Uganda
  5. AIDS (Disease) > South Africa > Epidemiology
  6. Anthropology, Cultural > methods > Uganda
  7. AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects > Uganda
  8. Health Policy > South Africa
  9. AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects > South Africa
  10. AIDS (Disease) > Uganda > Epidemiology
  11. Sexual Behavior > Uganda
  12. Socioeconomic Factors > South Africa
  13. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > epidemiology > South Africa
  14. Anthropology, Cultural > methods > South Africa
  15. Socioeconomic Factors > Uganda
  16. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > prevention & control > South Africa
Contents
  1. Introduction: meaning and structure in the study of AIDS -- Comparing Uganda and South Africa: sexual networks, family structure, and property -- The social determinants of sexual network configuration -- The tightening chain: civil society and Uganda's response to HIV/AIDS -- AIDS in Uganda: years of chaos and recovery -- Siliimu as native category: AIDS as local knowledge in Uganda -- Uganda"s indigenization of AIDS: governance and the political response in Uganda -- South Africa's struggle: the omission and commission of truth about AIDS -- Imagining AIDS: South Africa's viral politics -- Flows of sexual substance: the sexual network in South Africa -- Preventing AIDS: a new paradigm for a new strategy.
Call number
  1. Sc E 09-391
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-274) and index.
Author
  1. Thornton, Robert J.
Title
  1. Unimagined community : sex, networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa / Robert J. Thornton.
Imprint
  1. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
Series
  1. California series in public anthropology ; 20
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-274) and index.
LCCN
  1. 2007046954
ISBN
  1. 9780520255524 (cloth : alk. paper)
  2. 0520255526 (cloth : alk. paper)
  3. 9780520255531 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  4. 0520255534 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. Sc E 09-391
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