The Slow Plague: A Geography of the AIDS Pandemic

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The Slow Plague: A Geography of the AIDS Pandemic

Based on research by a leading geographer and specialist in diffusion theory, The Slow Plague discloses the geographic dimension of the AIDS pandemic. It provides a lucid description of the HIV, its origins, and the extent to which it has now permeated our lives. The author shows how the virus jumps from city to city, creating regional epicenters from which it spreads into surrounding areas.

Four case studies at different geographic scales demonstrate the devastating effects of the disease. In Africa the situation is catastrophic, in Thailand it is rapidly becoming so. In the US there are over 300,000 people with AIDS and more than one million infected by the HIV. The relationships between poverty, drugs and HIV infection are brought out poignantly in a chapter about the Bronx.

The author argues that a real understanding of AIDS has been hampered by conscious or unconscious beliefs that those affected are, and will continue to be, confined to specific minority groups and to parts of the Third World. He shows that such views have led to fundamental misconceptions about the pattern of the spread of the disease and about those who will be most at risk, now and in the immediate future.
Country USA
Brand Wiley-Interscience
Manufacturer Wiley-Blackwell
Binding Paperback
Color Black
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781557864192
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Wiley-Interscience
Manufacturer	Wiley-Blackwell
Binding	Paperback
Color	Black
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781557864192
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The Slow Plague: A Geography of the AIDS Pandemic

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