| Unimagined Community: Sex, Networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa Volume 20 Contributor(s): Thornton, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520255534 ISBN-13: 9780520255531 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2008 Annotation: This groundbreaking work, with its unique anthropological approach, sheds new light on a central conundrum surrounding AIDS in Africa. Robert J. Thornton explores why HIV prevalence fell during the 1990s in Uganda despite that country's having one of Africa's highest fertility rates, while during the same period HIV prevalence rose in South Africa, the country with Africa's lowest fertility rate. Thornton finds that culturally and socially determined differences in the structure of sexual networks--rather than changes in individual behavior--were responsible for these radical differences in HIV prevalence. Incorporating such factors as property, mobility, social status, and political authority into our understanding of AIDS transmission, Thornton's analysis also suggests new avenues for fighting the disease worldwide. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Forensic Medicine - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Medical | Diseases |
| Dewey: 614.599 |
| LCCN: 2007046954 |
| Series: California Series in Public Anthropology (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.91 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This groundbreaking work, with its unique anthropological approach, sheds new light on a central conundrum surrounding AIDS in Africa. Robert J. Thornton explores why HIV prevalence fell during the 1990s in Uganda despite that country's having one of Africa's highest fertility rates, while during the same period HIV prevalence rose in South Africa, the country with Africa's lowest fertility rate. Thornton finds that culturally and socially determined differences in the structure of sexual networks-rather than changes in individual behavior-were responsible for these radical differences in HIV prevalence. Incorporating such factors as property, mobility, social status, and political authority into our understanding of AIDS transmission, Thornton's analysis also suggests new avenues for fighting the disease worldwide. |
