AIDS and power : disease and democracy in Africa / / Alex de Waal
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| Autore: |
De Waal Alexander
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| Titolo: |
AIDS and power : disease and democracy in Africa / / Alex de Waal
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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African arguments.