AIDS in the Twenty-First Century: Disease and Globalization Fully Revised and Updated Edition - Couverture souple

Whiteside, Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1403997683 ISBN 13 : 9781403997685

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

Synopsis

This book, first published in 2002 to widespread acclaim, is fully revised and updated to take account of the latest facts and developments in the field. Carefully written to be accessible, this book is theoretically informed, practical and remains the leading text in its field.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

TONY BARNETT is ESRC Professorial Research Fellow at the Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics, UK, and a Co-Director of the Mackinder Centre for the Study of Long Wave Events. His other publications on this subject include AIDS in Africa: Its Present and Future Impact (with Piers Blaikie, 1992), The Effect of HIV/AIDS on Farming Systems in Eastern Africa, Economics of AIDS and Access to Care in Developing Countries (edited with Jean-Paul Moatti and others) and HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States: Reversing the Epidemic - Facts and Policy Options (co-author). In 2003, Tony Barnett was awarded the Lucy Mair Medal by the Royal Anthropological Institute, and in 2004 was appointed to the Advisory Committee of the UK Government's Foresight Project on the Detection and Identification of Infectious Diseases. He has provided policy advice to many UN and bilateral agencies.

ALAN WHITESIDE was an Overseas Development Institute Fellow from 1980 to 1983 when he joined the University of Natal (now University of KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa. He is a Professor and Director of the Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division which he established in 1998. He has numerous publications including the best selling AIDS: The Challenge for South Africa (co-author with Clem Sunter, 2000). From 2003 to 2005 he was a Commissioner for the United Nations Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa and was a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Southampton University, UK, and a Visiting Professor at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK. He is a member of the International AIDS Society Governing Council.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1403997683
• ISBN 13: 9781403997685
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 464
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