The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS

by Elizabeth Pisani

Overview

“[A] rollicking, eye-opening, hilarious account of the underbelly of international AIDS research.”—Carlin Romano, Philadelphia Inquirer

As an epidemiologist researching AIDS, Elizabeth Pisani has been involved with international efforts to halt the disease for fourteen years. With swashbuckling wit, fierce honesty, and more than a little political incorrectness, 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. With verve and clarity, Pisani 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393337655
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	09/21/2009
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.26(h) x 0.97(d)

About the Author

Elizabeth Pisani has lived in Indonesia at various times over the past twenty-five years, originally as a journalist and later as an HIV epidemiologist. The author of The Wisdom of Whores and Indonesia Etc., she is based in London.

Editorial Reviews

"The book will make you reconsider everything you thought you knew about HIV/AIDS."

Foreign Policy - Katie Hunter

"This is an utterly fascinating book. . . . Elizabeth Pisani writes with enormous verve and acerbity, her prose alive with anecdote and metaphor. . . . The Wisdom of Whores is a great read."

Stephen Lewis