Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2006.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (147 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations.
SERIES
Series Title
African arguments
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-143) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
Ingram Content Group
Stock Number
3-017-9781848130548
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
AIDS and power.
International Standard Book Number
9781842777060
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
AIDS (Disease)-- Political aspects-- South Africa.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome-- epidemiology-- Africa South of the Sahara.
HIV Infections-- epidemiology-- Africa South of the Sahara.