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A flame-throwing epidemiologist talks about sex, drugs, and the mistakes (dismal), ideologies (vicious), and hopes (realistic) of international AIDS prevention.
When people ask Elizabeth Pisani what she does for a living, she says, "sex and drugs." As an epidemiologist researching AIDS, she's been involved with international efforts to halt the disease for fourteen years. With swashbuckling wit and fierce honesty, she dishes on herself and her colleagues as they try to prod reluctant governments to fund HIV prevention for the people who need it most—drug injectors, gay men, sex workers, and johns.Pisani chats with flamboyant Indonesian transsexuals about their boob jobs and watches Chinese streetwalkers turn away clients because their SUVs aren't nice enough. With verve and clarity, she shows the general reader how her profession really works; how easy it is to draw wrong conclusions from "objective" data; and, shockingly, how much money is spent so very badly. "Exhibit A": the 45 billion taxpayer dollars the Bush administration is committing to international AIDS programs.
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Sexual behavior, Epidemiologists, Economics, harm reduction, Health Policy, Biography, Prevention & control, AIDS (Disease), HIV infections, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Prevention, Biographies, Politique de la santé, Epidémiologie, Prostitution, HIV Infections, Analyse comparative, SIDA = Syndrome immuno-déficitaire acquis, Sexual Behavior, Lutte contre les maladies, Aids (disease), prevention, Aids (disease), economic aspects, Hiv infections, Medical policy, Sexual ethics, Epidemiology, Sex, Political aspects, Social aspects, Sex-oriented businessesShowing 7 featured editions. View all 7 editions?
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Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS
2009, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
in English
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Wisdom of Whores
Feb 11, 2009, Brand: Granta/Portobello Omes, Granta/Portobello Omes
paperback
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Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS
2008, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
in English
0393068900 9780393068900
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The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS
June 2, 2008, W. W. Norton, W. W. Norton & Co.
Hardcover
in English
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0393066622 9780393066623
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The wisdom of whores: bureaucrats, brothels, and the business of AIDS
2008, W. W. Norton & Co.
in English
- 1st American ed.
0393066622 9780393066623
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Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS
2008-05-06, Viking
0670067946 9780670067947
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The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS
2008-01-01, Granta Books
1847080243 9781847080240
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