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AIDS Between Science and Politics - Hardcover

Piot, Peter

 
9780231166263: AIDS Between Science and Politics
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0231166265 ISBN 13: 9780231166263
Verlag: Columbia University Press, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

Piot describes how the epidemic altered global attitudes toward sexuality, the character of the doctor-patient relationship, the influence of civil society in international relations, and traditional partisan divides. AIDS thrust health into national and international politics where, he argues, it rightly belongs. The global reaction to AIDS over the past decade is the positive result of this partnership, showing what can be acheved when science, politics, and policy converge on the ground. Yet it remains a fragile achievement, and Piot warns against complacency and the consequences of reduced investments. He refuses to accept a world in which high levels of HIV infection are the norm. Instead, he explains how to continue to reduce the incidence of the disease to minute levels through both prevention and treatment, until a vaccine is discovered.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Peter Piot is the director of the renowned London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a professor of global health. He is a former Under Secretary General of the United Nations, the founding executive director of UNAIDS, and co-discoverer of the Ebola virus, and former president of the International AIDS Society. He has published more than 500 scientific papers and articles and sixteen books, including his memoirs, No Time To Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses.

Laurence Garey is an anatomist, former member the Court of Examiners, Royal College of Surgeons of England, and the Council of the Anatomical Society. He has translated works from French and German, including Jean-Didier Vincent and Pierre-Marie Lledo's The Custom-Made Brain: Cerebral Plasticity, Regeneration, and Enhancement. He is an associate collaborator with the Institute of the History of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Verlag
Columbia University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0231166265
ISBN 13 
9780231166263
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
208
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Columbia University Press
https://cup.columbia.edu/

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