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001 2011007350
003 DLC
005 20120215112135.0
008 110216s2011 enkab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2011007350
020 $a9781107006638
020 $a9780521186377 (pbk.)
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050 00 $aRA643.86.A35$bP465 2011
060 10 $aWC 503.3
082 00 $a362.196/97920096$222
100 1 $aPepin, Jacques,$d1958-
245 14 $aThe origins of AIDS /$cJacques Pepin.
260 $aCambridge, UK ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2011.
300 $axiv, 293 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
520 $a"This compelling new account traces the origins and development of the most dramatic and destructive disease epidemic of modern times. Jacques Pepin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and the subsequent evolution and transmission of the disease before it was first officially identified in 1981. The book focuses on the specific circumstances in Leopoldville, the capital of the Belgian Congo, where urbanization, the spread of prostitution, and medical interventions to control the incidence of tropical diseases interconnected to fuel the communication of HIV-1 in the 1960s, as the country struggled to adapt to its newfound independence. With a unique synthesis of historical, political and medical elements, this book adds a coherent and necessary historical perspective to recent molecular studies of the chronology of the HIV/AIDS pandemic"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 238-281) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Out of Africa; 2. The source; 3. The timing; 4. The cut hunter; 5. Societies in transition; 6. The oldest trade; 7. Injections and the transmission of viruses; 8. The legacies of colonial medicine I: French Equatorial Africa and Cameroun; 9. The legacies of colonial medicine II: the Belgian Congo; 10. The other human immunodeficiency viruses; 11. From the Congo to the Caribbean; 12. The blood trade; 13. The globalisation; 14. Assembling the puzzle; 15. Epilogue: lessons learned.
650 0 $aHIV infections$zAfrica.
650 0 $aHIV infections$zEtiology.
650 0 $aAIDS (Disease)$zAfrica.
650 0 $aEmerging infectious diseases$zAfrica.
650 12 $aHIV Infections$xetiology$zAfrica.
650 12 $aHIV Infections$xhistory$zAfrica.
650 22 $aAcquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome$xhistory$zAfrica.
650 22 $aCommunicable Diseases, Emerging$xhistory$zAfrica.
650 22 $aDisease Vectors$zAfrica.
650 22 $aHIV-1$xpathogenicity$zAfrica.
650 22 $aHistory, 20th Century$zAfrica.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1205/2011007350-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1205/2011007350-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1205/2011007350-t.html