a sociological perspective on the epidemic in America /
First Statement of Responsibility
Carole A. Campbell.
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New York :
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Cambridge University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1999.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xi, 257 pages ;
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24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-245) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Epidemiology, risk/transmission, and natural history of HIV disease in women and children -- Female reproductive health and sexuality -- Women at risk: drug use and prostitution -- Gender, culture, race, and class -- Men, gender roles, and sexuality -- Women, motherhood, and the family -- Women, families, and HIV/AIDS.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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What has been the impact of this disease on women and on families? This book offers the first comprehensive sociological explanation.
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Women are contracting HIV through heterosexual transmission faster than by any other means of transmission, including injection drug use. How did female cases in the United States grow from 43 in 1983 to over 2, 000 times that number 14.
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Women make up 16 percent of total AIDS cases in the United States today, and the number of women with HIV disease is now growing at a faster rate than that of men.
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Years later? What factors have influenced the course of the epidemic for women?