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Sto caricando le informazioni... A Plague of Paradoxes: AIDS, Culture, and Demography in Northern Tanzania (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture)di Philip W. Setel
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. An informative look at the AIDS epidemic in a region of Northern Tanzania in the 80s and early 90s, though Setel does not wear his research lightly. This is a pretty dense, leaden read, that betrays its origins as the PhD dissertation of someone who is not a gifted prose writer. Still, it presents a lot of food for thought on how illnesses and epidemics, just as with so many other facets of the human experience that may seem biological, are in fact socially constructed. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Since recording its first AIDS cases in 1983, Tanzania has reported nearly 90,000 more to the World Health Organization--more than any other country in Africa. As AIDS spread, the devastating syndrome came to be known simply as ugonjwa huo: "that disease." The AIDS epidemic has forced Africans to reflect upon the meaning of traditional ideas and practices related to sexuality and fertility, and upon modernity and biomedicine. In A Plague of Paradoxes, anthropologist Philip Setel observes Tanzania's Chagga people and their attempts to cope with and understand AIDS--the latest in a series of crises over which they feel they have little, if any, control. Timely and well-researched, A Plague of Paradoxes is an extended case study of the most serious epidemic of the twentieth century and the cultural circumstances out of which it emerged. It is a unique book that brings together anthropology, demography, and epidemiology to explain how a particular community in Africa experiences AIDS. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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