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Title:

AIDS, culture, and Africa / edited by Douglas A. Feldman.

Publisher:

University Press of Florida,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xiv, 293 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--Africa.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--ethnology--Africa South of the Sahara.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--prevention & control--Africa South of the Sahara.
Cultural Characteristics--Africa South of the Sahara.
Risk Assessment--Africa South of the Sahara.
Sexual Behavior--ethnology--Africa South of the Sahara.
Socioeconomic Factors--Africa South of the Sahara.

Other Authors:

Feldman, Douglas A.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

AIDS, culture, and Africa : the anthropological perspective / Douglas A. Feldman -- Confounding conventional wisdom : the Ju/'hoansi and HIV/AIDS / Richard B. Lee and Ida Susser -- Gendered responses to living with AIDS : case studies in Rwanda / Ruth Kornfield and Stella Babalola -- A theory of social proximity : accounting for societal-level behavior change / Kate MacIntyre and Carl Kendall -- Male circumcision in the AIDS era : new relevance of an old topic / Judith E. Brown -- Factors that influence Ivorian women's risk perception of STIs and HIV / Kim Longfield -- Courage, conquest, and condoms : harmful ideologies of masculinity and sexual encounters in Zambia in the time of HIV/AIDS / Anthony Simpson -- Attitudes toward HIV/AIDS among Zambian high school students / Douglas A. Feldman ... [et al.] --
Myths of science, myths of sex : homophobia and HIV vulnerability in Namibia / Robert Lorway -- HIV/AIDS prevention : strategies for improving prevention efforts in Africa / Elizabeth Onjoro Meassick -- Tugende Uganda : issues in defining "sex" and "sexual partners" in Africa / Susan McCombie and Ariela Eshel -- HIV/AIDS and the context of polygyny and other marital and sexual unions in Africa : implications for risk assessment and interventions / Teresa Swezey and Michele Teitlebaum -- Gender, poverty, and AIDS risk : case studies from rural Uganda / Charles B. Rwabukwali -- Culture in action : reactions to social responses to HIV/AIDS in Africa / Eleanor Preston-Whyte -- Conclusion : it's not just about AIDS--the underlying agenda to control HIV in Africa / Douglas A. Feldman.

ISBN:

0813032539 (alk. paper)
9780813032535 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)226356600

LCCN:

2008020122

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)