03647nam 2200745Ia 450 991081165750332120200520144314.01-107-22753-41-139-12489-71-283-29862-71-139-12342-497866132986211-139-00523-51-139-12833-71-139-11331-31-139-11767-X1-139-11550-2(CKB)2550000000055842(EBL)805536(OCoLC)768770477(SSID)ssj0000539799(PQKBManifestationID)11327622(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000539799(PQKBWorkID)10579907(PQKB)10188915(UkCbUP)CR9781139005234(MiAaPQ)EBC805536(Au-PeEL)EBL805536(CaPaEBR)ebr10502715(CaONFJC)MIL329862(PPN)261333178(EXLCZ)99255000000005584220110216d2011 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe origins of AIDS /Jacques Pepin1st ed.Cambridge, UK ;New York Cambridge University Press20111 online resource (xiv, 293 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-18637-4 1-107-00663-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-281) and index.Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Out of Africa; 2. The source; 3. The timing; 4. The cut hunter; 5. Societies in transition; 6. The oldest trade; 7. Injections and the transmission of viruses; 8. The legacies of colonial medicine I: French Equatorial Africa and Cameroun; 9. The legacies of colonial medicine II: the Belgian Congo; 10. The other human immunodeficiency viruses; 11. From the Congo to the Caribbean; 12. The blood trade; 13. The globalisation; 14. Assembling the puzzle; 15. Epilogue: lessons learned.It is now thirty years since the discovery of AIDS but its origins continue to puzzle doctors and scientists. Inspired by his own experiences working as an infectious diseases physician in Africa, Jacques Pepin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and traces its subsequent development into the most dramatic and destructive epidemic of modern times. He shows how the disease was first transmitted from chimpanzees to man and then how urbanization, prostitution, and large-scale colonial medical campaigns intended to eradicate tropical diseases combined to disastrous effect to fuel the spread of the virus from its origins in Léopoldville to the rest of Africa, the Caribbean and ultimately worldwide. This is an essential new perspective on HIV/AIDS and on the lessons that must be learnt if we are to avoid provoking another pandemic in the future.HIV infectionsAfricaHIV infectionsEtiologyAIDS (Disease)AfricaEmerging infectious diseasesAfricaHIV infectionsHIV infectionsEtiology.AIDS (Disease)Emerging infectious diseases362.196/97920096Pepin Jacques1958-1614168MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811657503321The origins of AIDS3943857UNINA