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Title:

HIV/AIDS, illness, and African well-being / edited by Toyin Falola and Matthew M. Heaton.

Publisher:

University of Rochester Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

x, 414 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

AIDS (Disease)--Africa.--Congresses.
Public health--Africa--Congresses.
HIV Infections--Africa South of the Sahara--Congresses.
Attitude to Health--Africa South of the Sahara--Congresses.
Communicable Disease Control--Africa South of the Sahara--Congresses.
Health Care Costs--Africa South of the Sahara--Congresses.
Health Promotion--Africa South of the Sahara--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Falola, Toyin.
Heaton, Matthew M.

Notes:

"The chapters presented here were originally presented at a conference on African health and illness held at the University of Texas at Austin from March 25-27, 2005."--Acknowledgments. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The infectious continent : Africa, disease, and the western imagination / Sophie Wertheimer -- Waterborne diseases and urban water supply in Makurdi, Nigeria, 1927-60 / Akpen Philip -- Smallpox and social control in colonial Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1850-1916 / Kalala Ngalamulume -- Poor man's trouble, rich man's graveyard : a study of malaria and epidemiological sciences since the nineteenth century / Raphael Chijioke Njoku -- Perceptions of epilepsy in a traditional society : an Akan (Ghana) family's experience / Cecilia S. Obeng -- Disability in Nigeria / Gabriel B. Fosu ... [et al.] -- The microbial rebellion : trends and containment of antimicrobial resistance in Africa / Iruka N. Okeke --
Development and the epidemiologic transition in Sub-Saharan Africa / Kathryn H. Jacobsen and Melissa K. Van Dyke -- The economic burden of Buruli ulcer disease on households in rural Ghana / Frank N.F. Dadzie, Ellen A.S. Whitney, and Gerald M. Mumma -- Health issues in a mining community in South Africa / Freek Cronjé and Charity Chenga -- Globalization, health, and the hajj : the West African pilgrimage scheme, 1919-38 / Matthew M. Heaton -- Of savages and mass killing : HIV/AIDS, Africa, and the crisis of global health governance / Obijiofor Aginam -- Vicissitudes of AIDS policies in Burkina Faso from 1985 to 2001: a historical perspective / Yacouba Banhoro --
Factors associated with deliberate attempts to transmit HIV infection among persons living with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania / William N. Mkanta -- Development and alternative mitigation treatment opportunities of the HIV/AIDS epidemic / Richard Beilock and Kaley Creswell -- Confusion, anger, and denial : results of HIV/AIDS focus group discussions with urban adult Zimbabweans / Mandi Chikombero -- Three proposals for analyzing the economic growth effects of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa / Richard Beilock.

Series:

Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora, 1092-5228 ;

ISBN:

1580462405 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781580462402 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)77573132

LCCN:

2006103313

Locations:

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)