Local women, global science [[electronic resource] ] : fighting AIDS in Kenya / / Karen M. Booth
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| Autore: |
Booth Karen M. <1962->
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| Titolo: |
Local women, global science [[electronic resource] ] : fighting AIDS in Kenya / / Karen M. Booth
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| Pubblicazione: | Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2004 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (222 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.1/969792/0096762 |
| 384.809497 | |
| Soggetto topico: | AIDS (Disease) - Kenya |
| AIDS (Disease) in women - Kenya | |
| AIDS (Disease) - Government policy | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-194) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Global medicine, local sex, and crisis -- Nairobi's casino: colonizing AIDS in the urban clinic -- Negotiating AIDS policy in Kenya: 1984-1994 -- "High-frequency transmitters" and invisible men -- "A husband can have a thousand girlfriends!" -- Drugs for whom? "African AIDS" in the second decade. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | There is evidence that women who live in societies that uphold male privilege -- the majority of the world's women -- are at increased risk for HIV infection. In Local Women, Global Science, Karen M. Booth looks closely at the operation of two clinics for sexually transmitted diseases in Nairobi, Kenya, and explores how internationally funded and nationally sanctioned interventions to stop the spread of HIV have focused almost exclusively on the sexual and reproductive behaviors of those who are least |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Local women, global science |
| ISBN: | 9786612071829 |
| 1-282-07182-3 | |
| 0-253-11078-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819776403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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