Aids in the Twenty-First Century : Disease and Globalization

by Tony Barnett and Alan Whiteside

• ISBN13: 9781403900067
• ISBN10: 140390006X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2003-08-16
• Publisher: SPRINGER

Summary

In this clearly written and informative book, Barnett and Whiteside-experts in the field for over fifteen years-argue that it is vital not only to look at AIDS in terms of prevention and treatment, but also to consider consequences which affect house-holds, communities, companies, governments, and countries. This is a major contribution toward understanding the global public health crisis, as well as the relationship between poverty, inequality, and infectious diseases.

Author Biography

Tony Barnett is Professor of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia. Alan Whiteside is Director of the Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division at the University of Natal, South Africa.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	vi
Acknowledgements	x
Part I Introduction
1 Disease, Change, Consciousness and Denial	3	(21)
2 The Disease and its Epidemology	24	(41)
Part II Susceptibility
3 Epidemic Roots	65	(33)
4 Cases	98	(26)
5 Why Africa?	124	(35)
Part III Vulnerability and Impact
6 Introduction to Impact	159	(23)
7 Individuals, Households and Communities	182	(14)
8 Dependants: Orphans and the Elderly	196	(26)
9 Subsistence Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods	222	(20)
10 HIV/AIDS and 'For Profit' Enterprise	242	(29)
11 AIDS, Development and Economic Growth	271	(24)
12 Government and Governance	295	(21)
13 Responses	316	(31)
14 Globalisation, Inequality, HIV/AIDS and the Intimacies of Self	347	(19)
Notes	366	(9)
Bibliography	375	(25)
Index	400	(15)
The Association François-Xavier Bagnoud	415