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AIDS and power : disease and democracy in Africa / / Alex de Waal



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Autore: De Waal Alexander Visualizza persona
Titolo: AIDS and power : disease and democracy in Africa / / Alex de Waal Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Zed Books in association with the International African Institute, 2006
Edizione: ebook edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (158 p.)
Disciplina: 362.196/979200968
Soggetto topico: AIDS (Disease) - Political aspects - South Africa
AIDS (Disease) - South Africa
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: AIDS and power  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-350-21837-5
1-84813-609-9
1-281-21558-9
1-78034-520-8
9786611215583
1-84813-054-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910345131403321
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Serie: African arguments.