| The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS Contributor(s): Pisani, Elizabeth (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393337650 ISBN-13: 9780393337655 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $17.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2009 Annotation: With wit and fierce honesty, an epidemiologist talks about sex, drugs, and the mistakes surrounding international AIDS prevention. Pisani reveals how easy it is to draw wrong conclusions from "objective" data and how much money is spent so very badly. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Aids & Hiv - Medical | Preventive Medicine - Medical | Health Policy |
| Dewey: 614.599 |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 5.58" W x 8.24" (0.70 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - AIDS |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As an epidemiologist researching AIDS, Elizabeth Pisani has been involved with international efforts to halt the disease for fourteen years. With swashbuckling wit, fierce honesty, and more than a little political incorrectness, she dishes on herself and her colleagues as they try to prod reluctant governments to fund HIV prevention for the people who need it most: drug injectors, gay men, sex workers, and johns. With verve and clarity, Pisani shows the general reader how her profession really works; how easy it is to draw wrong conclusions from "objective" data; and, shockingly, how much money is spent so very badly. |
Contributor Bio(s): Pisani, Elizabeth: - Elizabeth Pisani has lived in Indonesia at various times over the past twenty-five years, originally as a journalist and later as an HIV epidemiologist. The author of The Wisdom of Whores and Indonesia Etc., she is based in London. |