The Political Economy of AIDS / Edition 1

by Merrill Singer

Overview

Features a collection of seven research-based articles on AIDS. This work seeks to cut through popular misunderstanding and conventional ideas about the spread and impact of AIDS by employing a political economic perspective in the analysis of the epidemic in diverse settings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780895031778
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/15/1998
Series:	Critical Approaches in the Health Social Sciences Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface

Section I: Understanding Epidemics in Political Economic Context
Chapter 1 The Political Economy of AIDS: An Introduction Merrill Singer

Chapter 2 Images of Catastrophe: The Making of an Epidemic Shirley Lindenbaum

Section II: Gender, Ethnicity and Class in AIDS Risk in the Inner-City
Chapter 3 Articulating Personal Experience and Political Economy in the AIDS Epidemic: The Case of Carlos Torres Merrill Singer

Chapter 4 Love, Jealousy, and Unsafe Sex among Inner-City Women: Social and Psychocultural Mediators of Political Economy's Impact on AIDS Risk Perception E. J. Sobo

Chapter 5 Multiple Racial/Ethnic Subordination and HIV among Drug Users Samuel R. Friedman, Benny Jose, Bruce Stepherson, Alan Neaigus, Marjorie Goldstein, Pat Mota, Richard Curtis,
and Gilbert Ildefonso

Section III: The Struggle for Care Among People with HIV/AIDS
Chapter 6 Medical Access for Injecting Drug Users Russell Rockwell, Samuel R. Friedman, Jo L. Sotheran, and Don Des Jarlais

Chapter 7 The Political Economy of Caregiving for People with AIDS Anthony J. Lemelle and Charlene Harrington

Section IV: AIDS In The Third World
Chapter 8 The Political Ecology of AIDS in Africa Meredith Turshen

Chapter 9 More than Money for Your Labor. Migration and the Political Economy of AIDS in Lesotho Nancy Romero-Daza and David Himmelgreen

Chapter 10 Political Economy and Cultural Logics of HIV/AIDS among the Hmong in Northern Thailand Patricia V. Symonds

Conclusion

About the Contributors

Name Index

Topic Index

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Bernard J. Turnock, MD, MPH (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Description: This book examines the political and economic forces that have shaped the worldwide AIDS pandemic in order to promote more effective responses and actions.
Purpose: The purpose is to encourage society-level, rather than individual-level, responses to the AIDS epidemic based on the premise that AIDS and other epidemics cannot be effectively addressed without broad social change. This premise and the arguments in its support are clearly presented through a series of contributed chapters.
Audience: There is no specific audience targeted by the editor, but it appears to be written for social scientists and policy makers. The editor and the various contributors are credible authorities in their fields.
Features: There is very scant use of charts, graphs, and tables throughout the book with considerable variation from one chapter to another. The index is quite thin but the table of contents is adequate.
Assessment: This book addresses an interesting and important premise, and it sheds light on the social nature of health and illness. It argues that epidemics — such as the worldwide pandemic of HIV infection — cannot be effectively addressed by individual-based approaches alone. The book reinforces this message through different social perspectives on the AIDS epidemic and leaves the reader thinking more broadly about health and illness in general, and appropriate responses to the AIDS epidemic in particular. This book would be an interesting addition to most health science libraries.

Doody's Review Service

2 Stars from Doody

This book examines the political and economic forces that have shaped the worldwide AIDS pandemic in order to promote more effective responses and actions. The purpose is to encourage society-level, rather than individual-level, responses to the AIDS epidemic based on the premise that AIDS and other epidemics cannot be effectively addressed without broad social change. This premise and the arguments in its support are clearly presented through a series of contributed chapters. There is no specific audience targeted by the editor, but it appears to be written for social scientists and policy makers. The editor and the various contributors are credible authorities in their fields. There is very scant use of charts, graphs, and tables throughout the book with considerable variation from one chapter to another. The index is quite thin but the table of contents is adequate. This book addresses an interesting and important premise, and it sheds light on the social nature of health and illness. It argues that epidemics -- such as the worldwide pandemic of HIV infection -- cannot be effectively addressed by individual-based approaches alone. The book reinforces this message through different social perspectives on the AIDS epidemic and leaves the reader thinking more broadly about health and illness in general, and appropriate responses to the AIDS epidemic in particular. This book would be an interesting addition to most health science libraries.

Bernard J. Turnock

In ten articles, researchers in the field use a political economic perspective to analyze the epidemic in diverse settings and to challenge popular misunderstanding and conventional ideas about the spread of and impact of AIDS. Their goal is to widen the field of vision from the stories of human suffering and resistance to public health systems, community health workers, and health social sciences. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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